There Was A People

'But the folk turned their ear to a different sound, that did not lift but shook them, took them down, led them to imagine the unimaginable, to conceive the inconceivable, commit the impossible. The folk banished music . . . They banished light.'

Hope, despair and magic, courage and betrayal, love and promises in the time of genocide.

'Biding our time, abiding them, waiting for someone to do something, someone to come to their senses, to be reasonable, biding, abiding, we let it happen, made it happen. We abetted them.'