Jack Davis is an Australian playwright and poet. He was of the Aboriginal Noongar people, and an Indigenous rights campaigner. Although he composed many of his poems while working as a stockman in Gascoyne in his twenties, his first volume of poetry was not published until 1970. Jack Davis’s poems such as the poem I’m going to analyse are associated with indigenous Australian experiences. This poem is about an indigenous person who is taken away where she can’t do the things that she wishes to do as she is running out of time, this is seen when Davis writes, Let go of my hand/ The sands of time are trickling before me/ I have not achieved/ what I want to be. It can therefore be seen that the poem is about letting the indigenous be free. The
