Backyard

• Sally Spicer, Grade 7
• Poetry
• 2007

You have lain on the grass,
gazing up at the sky,
your homeland has changed and you need to know why.
Did you vote the wrong vote, or write the wrong letter?
People claim to be changing this land for the better. Sure as the Summer will leave, and the Autumn arrives, people will find a new way to get on with their lives.
So you'd head to the east, and you'd head to the west, and the north and the south but the one you'd like best was that sweet little place where nothing was scarred, it's pretty it's happy,
It's your own backyard!