Villanelle: No Lives Are Theirs Those Who Embody Rule of Law
Villanelle: No lives are theirs those who embody rule of law
No lives are theirs those who embody rule of law
Inhabit the corridors of authority
Must of needs lay lives down their peoples to succour
Makes no difference whether tyrant emperor
Or those who sneak in barely in democracy
No lives are theirs those who embody rule of law
Falter even once nay their lives forfeit before
This the rule must be for those in authority
Must of needs lay lives down their peoples to succour
The judge who takes sides for the favours of a whore
The prince consort who soils queen’s bed with germs mighty
No lives are theirs those who embody rule of law
President who risks State secrets with paramour
Minister who fills own pockets with rigged treaty
Must of needs lay lives down their peoples to succour
Qian holds Heaven where must reside nothing impure
Lest the downpour soak toiling souls’ immunity
No lives are theirs those who embody rule of law
Must of needs lay lives down their peoples to succour
© T. Wignesan – Paris, 2015
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