The Land Is Not Our Land Poem by Francis Duggan

This Land is not your Land as much as not mine
This beautiful brown Land of warm sunshine
For each of us there is a life's final day
Our acres and homes we can't take with us behind us they stay.

On Land ownership the Indigenous people have the right idea
They will tell you we do not own the Land or we don't own property
We are the Land's caretakers and when we are gone
We hope that others our work will then carry on.

We who have caused so much extinction have got it all wrong
We do not own Nature though to her we belong
Nature lives forever but we soon age and die
In that way the sheep or the canine is no different to I.

Those who think the Land is theirs by their egos outgrown
The Land is not our own Land the land we do not own
We are the Land's caretakers that and nothing more
Since our average life span is ten years with three score.