Concrete pest

Great glider soars, tail like bottlebrush 

Spotted quoll scurries up mountain white gum

Little leek orchid fragrant and lush

Fire paints banksia with colours of sun

Claws of concrete snatch at the earth

Like a weed it grows over the green

Uprooting trees, with might and mirth

Rampant it devours all that is seen

Woylie rests peaceful, in gold summer heat

Lonely orange-bellied parrot, nests in tree hollow

On sandy shores, eastern curlew, quick on its feet

Where numbat wanders, her joey will follow

Urban shadow looms over the soil

The forest of gum grew in many years

Yet the roads and the grey do not care for their toil

The woodlands that grow, now embedded with fears

A hand reaching out to the land
Sapling, tree, forest, soon green again

Tread lightly, restore, take a mighty stand

For koala and bilby and purple crowned wren