Image by June Perkins
A song lyric
Country boys and country girls
dream more than sugar cane.
Country boys and country girls
want more than endless rain.
They’re picking stars from skies above.
They’re catching pieces of the moonlight.
They’re running to the canopies
of light.
Country boys and country girls
often hide their pain
but they’re still holding
onto all their dreams
looking into the firelight
to find the global streams.
They’re picking stars from skies above
They’re catching pieces of the moonlight
They’re running to the canopies of light.
Country boys and country girls
often leave these towns
‘cause when the pickings done
there’s too few jobs around
and when a cyclone’s been
it’s even harder still
but now they’ve just got to
have a stronger will.
So they’re leaving behind the sugar cane
they’re saying goodbye
to endless rain
And they’re still looking
for the canopies of…
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Gumboootspearlz 
Can relate to this poem having grown up in Nth Queensland and yearning for more than to be surrounded by sugar cane fields. Beautiful.
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