Poetry

This is a excerpt from the graduation speech that John Roberts, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, delivered at his son’s high school in Cardigan on 3 June 2017: From time to time in the years to come, I hope you will be treated unfairly, so that you will come to know the value of justice. I hope that you will suffer betrayal because that will teach you the importance of loyalty....

You who are passing by I beg you Do something Learn a dance step Something to justify your existence Something that gives you the right To be dressed in your skin in your body Learn to walk and to laugh Because it would be too senseless After all For many to have died While you live Doing nothing with your life Auschwitz survivor Charlotte