18 MAY 1985, Page 27

No Badges

You wear your badges with such pride and I Admire you unreservedly. I share Your consternation and concern. I care About the principles you're standing by, The causes you uphold so well. So why This caution, this reluctance to declare Myself as one committed, and to wear Those badges that the dedicated buy? Am I a coward, skulking down the way Of non-alignment, weak when you are strong? Perhaps; but in my heart I'd rather stay Where questions lie unanswered. I belong Where I must argue with myself each day The possibility I might be wrong.

Mary Spain