Arahura

The Arahura

It ebbs and it flows

It changes in ways

Only rivers can know

But when I was young

I studied those ways

I kept them with me

Through all of my days

Te Rauparaha

Had the greenest of eyes

He came a long way

For a shimmering prize

And God only knows

What he needed stones for

But you didn't mind

For you've a million more

And when I look down

From the mountain above

I know I am bound

To the river I love

And in a million years

I'll be a rock on that hill

But in a million more

I don't know that I will