Butetown by Ewart Richards

A place of Many Faiths

Bonded by the sea, Muslims, Christians
and Jews worked and played together.
In shop, pubs and offices
they were equal.

Retaining their identity they became as one,
a community taking strength from one another.
Through wars, depressions and times of plenty
they shared births, deaths and marriages.

Then in the twentieth century
the bulldozers came.
Now Butetown is a memory
its people and history lost.