REMEMBER, a cut to our culture
Is a deep scar to our psyche
And now libraries who’ve stood for many years
Are threatened with closure:
Dinas Powys, Sully, Rhoose, Wenvoe.
Where will the old lady down the street
Borrow a book to fill in the hours?
Vale Council consider, use your powers
To preserve these jewels, part of our heritage
For we are rich not a Third World country
And when one ventures into a library
You can explore the world: from deepest Africa
To the vast whiteness of Antarctica,
Live in the minds of great detectives,
Sail the seven seas and venture through time
So closing libraries would be a crime
Eroding community spirit even further.
Would they build flats adding to traffic?
Surely the ghosts who’ve browsed these magical shelves
Would drift sadly as the builders came.
Therefore let’s continue with people power
For libraries are an oasis in this dark, cruel world
So book lovers everywhere must unite,
Ensure the flames of culture stay alight.
Guy Fletcher
Pantmawr
Cardiff
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