POEM FOR TODAY-----'FOR MALTA.'

Aerial View of Malta and megalithic temple Hagar Qim.

I am British and I have lived in Malta for some years now. My poem is perhaps a summing up of my feelings about and for this little island:-

For Malta.

Small rock, honey-hued, circled with sapphire,

set mid East and West and winds of change;

History, Domination, deep in your soul.

Strategic, vulnerable, you cry for freedom.

Malta-your birthright is freedom!

Life, Spirit, Identity,

resonate from temples and churches.

Hear the pleas of Mother Earth- your mother.

Mother, keep close to your little one,

show it the way.

Maureen Hughes.