This is the flag

This is the flag we call our own

Marking coastal dominion

Welcoming friendly visitors

Warning those who would do us harm

This is the flag we call our own

Flying top of the flagstaff

Proudly bearing our colours

Together

Never alone

This is the flag we call our own

Not owned but shared

Today with every rainbow colour

Other days with flags of envoys

Declaring international amity

This is the flag sought out by mariners

Returning from an odyssey

Great or small

This is the flag of national unity

How much loyalty you feel you owe this emblem

Is entirely up to you

But please don’t claim our flag your own

Tied half way up a lamp post

Too feeble to climb to the top

Leave it dangling there

To tear and tangle

Tatters troubled by the breeze

Our flag deserves more than a reflection

Of the limp noodle you keep in your short

This union flag must fly proud

Not upside down as some end up

Not tangled in a tree

Not painted on a pavement for poodles to piss on

Nor flown to frighten

Intimidate

Or to promulgate your chauvinistic charade

Please don’t celebrate your ignorance

By desecrating our flag

This flag is not for you to dishonour