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Friday 27 April 2012

Our Bougainville Story Song

By Leonard Fong Roka

Facing north she curls her wade;
An elver in the serene Pacific
With a troop of family fading south
She labours in agony of leading
What is tomorrow?



She was cute
Elegant,
Innocent,
Supple,
Angel so violet, in the tranquillity of our sea
Our sea…the water of love
What is tomorrow?

Songs she sang
The voice she had
The breast she is bestowed with
Scent she travelled with
Captivated
Seduced and soothes
The rapacious and the hedonistic
In the west and the Redskin country
What is tomorrow?



To the rascal:
They is love
They is bushman
Bush woman
Uncivilized; empty
Heads waiting to be filled
Insane, and to be streamlined
Into perfection
This is tomorrow!

To Bougainville,
Education he brought
Money he poured
Curiosity and ecstasy he farmed
Emptiness he nurtured!
This is tomorrow!

Cocoa he pumped
Copra he injected
Barrenness still, he saw
So, mining he started!
This is tomorrow!



Panguna,
Our land they dug
Copper and gold they turn into money in London,
Canberra and Port Moresby…
Arawa they built
To house aliens so strange to our Solomon
Panguna they planned
To bucket Whiteman and Redskins
Oh Bougainville,
This is tomorrow!

Rich she was in the paper
But, roads got tar
Torokina saw no car
Rivers changed bridges day-in-day-out
Kongara was glued to dear mother tongue
A landowner was a scary mongrel in Arawa
Towns were owned by aliens
This is tomorrow!

This is tomorrow
Our land is theirs
Our towns are theirs
We fall in love with our economy and nation
In the media of high praises
Yet we dwell in the make-shift shelters
And slums
With hard earned K50 note
Collecting litter
In the streets
They tell us that is ours!
This is tomorrow!



This is tomorrow!
Rescue my Bougainville people
Liberate our Solomon island of Bougainville
To where it belongs;
Where our apical mothers left us, there is freedom
There is calm
Because the sea is Bougainville
The land is Bougainville
And the family, is Solomon

Oh Bougainville,
This was tomorrow
This is tomorrow
This will be tomorrow,
Free Bougainville!

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