Is anybody listening

Here in Platypus Bay in Lake St Claire National Park, Tasmania Worried hides. He fears for the planet as the country burns and the leaders continue to tell Worried “Not to worry about Climate Change. It simply doesn’t exist!!!” Worried feels he must act like the snail, slowly. And so he is going to live like the first Australians in this land, slowly.

Small Child

Archie Roach

I see the birds up in the tree
You know that I just want to be, free
I see the clouds up in the sky
You know that I just want to fly, high

Small child, I know where you live
And small child, I know what you give to me

When you speak you whisper
Those words so soft and mild
Thank God I learnt to listen
To that inner child

Hello, hello, hello
Hello, hello, hello
Hello, hello, hello
Hello, hello, hello

Is anybody listening to?
Is anybody listening to?
Is anybody listening to that child?
That child

Don’t outgrow the child inside
Remember all the times we’ve cried
Remember all the times we laughed
When we all had children’s hearts
Let your mind swim wild and free
Like the fishes in the sea
Imagine all that you can be
Now hold on to the one you love
Then you can fly above…

About graffittigranny

I am sending these sculptures out into the world to have a dialogue with those interested in some of the existential questions like what are we all doing here? and what is the meaning of our existence if any? Each sculpture has a" twin". One twin stays at home under the safety of a somewhat boring bland roof of a dolls house found in hard rubbish. The other is left out in the world somewhere with a poem to engage you in these questions of our existence and our memories. Which existence is better? Is there such a thing as a better life? The poems are sometimes in French because the Xmas fortune cookie said " The sum of human knowledge is not contained in any one language." I hope over time a dialogue might begin where the sculptures create a means for us to relate in the quiet of the blog site. What this dialogue will mean or not is yet to be revealed!

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2 Responses to Is anybody listening

Gill Jewell says:

January 18, 2020 at 10:09 am

Yes I try to listen

But do you find if your female over 55 yrs
not a great deal of what you say is listened to or understood.?
More the point and maybe it’s old age, the motives and actions of people, sometime friends are not understood by me either and they don’t understand me on occasions.

I spose really you have to have something to actually say or no one listens lol

Gill Jewell says:

January 18, 2020 at 10:14 am

Ps…. they will have to listen to all the many ‘Worried’ out there as together no matter what their age …. together we are one big mass of WORRIED