I’ve grown tired of the news
and have taken to reading history
Richard the Lion Hearted
was not his father’s eldest son
History calls him, “a bad son,
a bad husband, a selfish ruler and a vicious man”
He went on a great crusade
he often butchered his own people
Afraid to rule, he fought battle after battle
and walled himself in Chateau Gaillard
Nicked by an arrow
from a boy he orphaned
He died from gangrene
a baby crying in his mother’s arms
His castle lies in ruins
on the banks of the Seine
His body desecrated and discarded
by the French Revolution
6-9-20
My husband's poetry 
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