I’m Henry The Eighth I Am, I Am Poem by Joe Rosochacki

Henry VIII did want to play the Vatican’s game,
He wanted to have a son, before the killing had begun,
He wanted top divorce his wife al least receive an annulment from the church,
He excommunicated himself from Rome and thus became the head of church.
Henry formed the Anglican Church,
-later to be affiliated with the Episcopalian Church,
It wasn’t dogma, it was not the interpretation of the Bible,
-and it was purely political.
So what is your excuse to try to let Islamic law be infused with the Magna Carta,
The Most Reverent Rowan Williams, Archbishop of Canterbury?
Is this some political joke taken from Rowan and Martin’s Laugh-In?
This view is not shared by the head of the Anglican Church,
Queen Elizabeth II,
Not this view promoted by the Britain’s Prime Minister Gordon Brown,
Or the House of Commons,
Or the House of Lords, that may be leaping.
Henry should be rolling--
In his grave,
After all the house of Tudor and through the House of Windsor,
Brought on the empire that the sun would never set,
The hens are coming home to roost after centuries of colonization,
The United Kingdom was entrenched with Arabic countries and their Royalty.
The reason that Islamists found its hold in your land is because they felt entitled to do so,
There is nothing for free.
But there are lines that are drawn in the sand,
Rowan, I’d like you to venture somewhere in the Middle East,
And promote British Common Law and Christianity,
I would bet that you would be maimed or killed on the road to Damascus.
Let’s try to have tolerance but not ignorance,
God help us.

(2-13-2008)