Michael Edwards

THE MARTYRS CROWN

 

 

THE MARTYRS CROWN

 

 

With gestures born of habit

he wore the martyrs crown

and so with heavy heart he knew

no choice of route, no upper hand

remained in his dominion.

 

Embittered sadness showed its face

now led away by fortune’s chain

no more the gesture of command

when exercising intellect

his fate: his abdication signed.