PUSATERYANNA TANDAK | The Crocodile Prize

We have been under the hostage and murderers,
We have been the prisoner’s pain, We have been the storms of betrayed,
We’ve watched our World sinking. 

We’ve seen our stream bloody river, We’ve heard the screams of agony,
We’ve seen hardness and stand broken. We’ve seen with our eyes and never say.

But now we’re rising from the ashes. And we are holding out our hands,
And we touch you with our story, See through your eyes and understand.

We know no comfort, we know no shelter. We know no wrong, we know no right.
We’ve neither glory nor metal, Just the terror of the night.

They felt that in Bougainville, in highland regions of PNG and in Solomon Islands.
We will be bitter the battle. Be friends to us and say no more-wars.
They play the games and he will rule them. They play the rules that never ill.
For them, there’s no fidelity. For us the killing is real.

You say it’s just the distance thunder, Look into your hearts and you will see.
These are your Sons, and your Daughters .They are you and they are me.

We have all kinds of peace, Inside ourselves,
We have all kinds of love, When the world goes before,
And they know kinds of love.

We can save your lives.
We are  -  We are the children of God creation.

Pusateryanna Tandak (13) was born on Santo in Vanuatu.  Her father comes from Pina Village near Wabag in Enga Province and her mother comes from Vanuatu.  She is a student in Year Seven at St Michelle Secondary School in Luganville on Santo.  When she finishes her Year 10 studies she hopes to go to Papua New Guinea to finish off her education