Derived from Feudal Darkness
Medieval canon lawyers were the first
To moot an individual’s pale chance
To have some rights in law, that tiny burst
Of radicality. From there to France
And chopping off the head of king and queen
Was like a pilgrimage to truth and trust
In you, in you and me, and in between
Were Inquisition, English Roundheads’ thrust,
Assassination in Whitehall, the shot
Heard round the world, and Martin Luther King.
More successful than the Gunpowder Plot
The genesis was like young David’s sling.
..Medieval clerics and the barons John
….Encountered launched an unstoppable dawn.