An Ode to our Country

A strange land with leaking borders
A hapless people in great disorder

How is it that &
Abundant rain falls and yet the plant withers?
Extensive sun shines and yet the child shivers?

An oddity indeed, but not in Airegin
To come alive again, where do we begin?

Can we all drink the milk and eat the honey?
Can our fields still bloom and our children look lovely?

Yes! But first, we must dare to dream

Because all creation and all invention
Every reformation and regeneration
Began in the mind and the imagination
When someone, somewhere, dared to dream

(An Excerpt from the Aireginan Dream)