Emma Goodridge-Hobson Poet Rhyme

Invasion, Causation

Across the city the emperor called
For recruits to join the legions
Travel to new and strange lands
And conquer for covetous  reasons

As sun beat down they trained their men
To fight  for colonisation,
Taking with them skills and knowledge
Introducing urbanisation. 

Past mountains, lakes and plains they marched
Battalions stood United  
Crossing countries, rivers, sea,
Arriving uninvited. 

Invasion, yet they brought with them
Progression, innovation;
Technology since lost in ages dark
Transforming a whole nation. 

Roads of stone, heated floors
Domestic sanitation,
Walls dividing tribes and clans
Fuelling aggravation.  

Yet Britain’s climate, wet and dour,
It’s warriors and chief,
Sent Rome’s great fighters fleeing home
Struck dumb in disbelief,

That this small nation could be such
A hostile, retched place,
And Rome  needed protecting
From the Jutes and Angles race. 

So after Constantine’s withdrawal 
Britain re-emerged  anew,
Rebirthing of a greater nation,
Than the one the romans slew. 

Left behind their legacy
Culture, architecture
But no longer an unwitting, oppressed,
Out-posted prefecture.

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