No Tapu te Ranga ahau | Sofia Rush, Roan Dooley, Talei Pethig and Harrison Jarvis

I look around Island Bay…

A toitoi is so golden in the sun

Branches hang down like vines

The hill looks like a waterfall

Big planes are high in the sky

they fly past like birds.

The lines on my leaf look like a branch of a tree.

The sun shines on the houses

The sun shines on the trees like fairy lights

I feel

the sand is as soft as silk,

the wind is as fast as Grease Lightning

I can smell salt from the sea.