OPEN LETTER TO MY FRIENDS

                 OPEN LETTER TO MY FRIENDS   BY TIM WILLIAMS JULY 2014

SOME FRIENDS OF MINE ARE ARTISTS
PAINTING PICTURES OF DYLAN AND WALES,
SOME WRITE WONDERFUL POEMS
OTHER'S USE MUSIC TO TELL THEIR TALES,
BUT ALL OF US TELL THE SAME STORY
WEATHER WITH PALLET KNIFE , MUSIC OR PEN,
WE ALL SING THE PRAISE OF OUR HOMELAND
US ARTY WELSH WOMEN AND MEN.

SOME TELL US THE TALE WITH A CAMERA
BRINGING WALES INTO FOCUS WITH LENS,
OTHER'S USE THEIR COMICAL GENIUS
TO MAKE US ALL LAUGH AT OURSELVES,
SOME THEY RUN A MUSEUM
TO TELL US OF WALES IN THE WAR'S,
FILLED WITH ARTIFACTS FROM BACK IN THE DAY
AND TALK OF THE HERO'S WALES BORE.

SOME OF MY FRIENDS ARE NOT ARTY AT ALL
BUT APPRECIATE WHAT OTHERS CAN DO,
AND YOU ARE THE MOST IMPORTANT OF ALL
BECAUSE WITHOUT YOU, WHAT WOULD THE ARTY ONE'S DO ?,
WE'D HAVE NO-ONE TO PAINT A PICTURE FOR
OR READ A POEM OR SING OUT OUR SONGS,
TELL A JOKE OR VISIT THE MUSEUM
THE BALANCE OF WALES WOULD BE WRONG.