Michael Ramel Poet Rhyme

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In 1987 I was in what was called [West] Germany at the time. I was in an out post of the Duke of Wurttemburg Castle in Ludwigsburg. I look up at the ceiling rim and noticed on one of the out post pillars the date 1395 A.D. So I wondered about what was going on in that area at that time? 

The Reign Came Down

In Germany's dusk, the fourteenth century fell
Disorder in the shadows, and village anger will swell
Where towns blossomed once, now chaos reigned
All rights tangled, privileges weren’t gained
Classes divided, old alliances torn
Princes and estates where conflict was born
Fields and workshops, commerce and trade
All swept up in strife that no one could evade
Country folk suffered, their fortunes declined
Feuds and famine ominously combined
Villages vanished only names remain
Echoes of lives lost to hunger and pain
Unrest and lawlessness, violence and fear
Only the strong could persevere
No ruler to unify, no guiding hand
Germany's turmoil swept across the land
So peaked the chaos the harbingers said
The way of order whimpered and fled
They would not do the same in The Western Land
They learned from how Germany had mistakenly band

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