Like Adam and Eve
With leaves covering
Our naked bodies
We arrived by canoe
At the edge of a
Great island
With exotic
Flora and fauna
Using the beautiful
Brush and dipping
Our hands into
The calm Pacific
We learned
And we grew
Shark toothed tools
Fiber baskets
Bamboo fishing poles
And fire
We lived in the
Caves and came out
In the day
Followed the jungles
And scaled mountains
Still we grew
And then one day
We wished upon
The island’s bounty
To teach us a
Way
To fly high as the sky
So we learned
And we grew
By handfuls
We built a
Temple, a pyramid
Ethereal and elevated
To rise off a
Mountain above
The coast and
All the rainforests
And with that
Temple our souls
Grew
One with the
World and
No longer lonely
We had
Found a meaning
Humbled and at home
We were now
Maori