Climbing the rock

The Aborigionals have used Uluru as a place for worship and a centre for teaching their religion for around 40,000 years. Thats 20 times the amount of time since Jesus was doing magic tricks. The Aborigionals' culture is based entirely on having respect for the land, talking of a time known as 'the dreaming' when the ancestral beings created the land. This respect for the land is taught to the kids quite simply because without respect for the land out here youll soon be dead. The outback is so dry, harsh, parched, scorched, barren and sterile. The Aborigional people ask tourists not to climb the rock, the reason for this is because its dangerous, people have died climbing it. When people die on their land it upsets them. So when an Aussie asks you if you climbed it and you say no, the aborigionals dont want you to, their reply is a blanket response. 'Bloody Abbos, think they own all the land..' etc. Believe me ive had this conversation many times.
The problem with most white Australians is that they have such a lack of history and culture, they find it difficult to respect others'. I dont hold this against them. I suggested to one lady from Melbourne that if an aborigional were to come to my home town in England and start climbing the church to get a better view of the town, endangering themselves, theyd get locked up. To me it seems a reasonable request not to climb. I havent written a poem since I was at school, until that evening when I was moved by what id seen, so ill put in on this blog. Ive called it 'Ab-original'.

Four thousand decades, now their culture fades,
Prospectors and pioneers came to trample and raid,
To their land and make them slaves, for the wealth they all crave.
Now its white man's rules, put their kids into schools,
Beating the children every day, doing it the 'Christian way',
Taking the land and killing them off, seperating the clans.
Change their language, ignore what to them is so obviously sacred,
Take their kids from their parents and presume theyre all ignorant,
Because theyre darker than us how can we trust?
Its to re-educate in the ways of Christianity,
after all, Its ALL based on family.
A generation totally lost and at the end of the day, to what real cost?
Howard says that hes sorry,
hes with Tony and George, filling bags up with bodies.
White man knows that money is power,
likes to drive his fast car and work in a tower.
Old whitey believes that moneys the answer but,
its too new to these people and the grog is the cancer.
They want to sell them homes, loans, phones
to make them their clones.
You can be as lucky as us, dispose of your culture,
blow away all the dust.
If an Aborigional came to my town and climbed on the church,
theyed lock him up then probably worse.
So Aussies, embrace the culture, dont ignore whats sacred,
Live together with respect and ignore the haters.
So when tourists arrive at Uluru in flocks,
For Jesus Christ's sake, dont climb on the rock.