Susan Mary Robertson

Star Road, London

I was born in Cardiff in Wales in 1952. I attended Ton-yr-ywen County primary school and Howell's School, Llandaff. I studied biochemistry at King's College, London, graduating in 1977. I have worked in medical research, computing and administration in hospitals, offices, holiday camps and voluntary organisations in the U.K., U.S.A., France and Germany. My hobbies include books, music, films, theatre, cookery, art and travel. My creative writing includes "Poetry for Fun", "Health for Humanity" and "The Dawn of the Space Age". I am currently completing the Birkbeck College London Certificate and Diploma in Media practice.

Blood, Sweat and Tears

Think just think, of all the blood, sweat and tears
London has shed with the passing of years.
The dirt, dust and smog, the noise and the grime.
Poverty, slavery, squalor and crime.

Ambitions and hopes, mad schemings and fears,
Disease, depravity, vice, wines and beers,
Arts and culture can pass the test of time,
City of contrast from base to sublime.

Historical monuments, long endears,
Symbolize prestige of people and peers.
Noise of the traffic and church bells still chime,
Rags next to riches, cultures rise from slime.

Millions of people have lived, worked and died-
London remembers few only with pride.