Sacred and Old
By Natahlee, Year 10
In Cambridge Park, where city meets the sky,
an Aboriginal woman feels her spirit sigh.
Among the bustling streets and modern pace,
she seeks her culture, her ancestral grace.
She walks the paths where her ancestors tread.
Through bushland whispers, where the spirits are fed.
In the Blue Mountains, sacred and old,
she hears their stories, in carvings bold.
She sings the songs her grandmother knew,
in ancient rhythms, with each note,
her heart begins to mend,
finding her roots, where past and present blend.
Back in the suburb, with a heart so light,
she shares her knowledge in the day and night.
Crafts and dances, stories passed along.
In her culture’s embrace, she finds where she belongs.
This poem, Sacred and Old, by Natahlee is an excerpt from Postcode Stories 2747. Throughout 2024, Story Factory worked with the students at Cambridge Park High School to produce a collection of stories and poems about place and belonging. From fantasy prose to poetic memoir, the students’ musing and individual approaches to storytelling demonstrate their highly personal connections to place. Their words are proudly published in the final book, Postcode Stories.
Postcode Stories was supported by the NSW Government through Create NSW.
