huia

Tamanna Amin

there is more to us than you can read 

there is more to us than you can speak 

you can try to understand one or the other 

but the ihi lies in doing both 

you can touch the maunga 

you can touch the moana 

you cannot say you know the land 

until you have laid upon both 

the reo of my fathers 

and the reo of the father 

you cannot say one is greater than the other 

you need both to understand me 

you cannot like my makawe 

if you do not like my toto 

they both run through the waters you drink 

they both made the path you walk

my reo means nothing if i do not korero 

your interest means nothing if you do not whakarongo