The Epitaph Of An Abdicator Poem by SILPIKA KALITA

Once lived a demagogue of empirical hedonism.
His granary fuelled the philosophy of epicureanism:

Gregarious, restive, was the centre of narcissism,
Neurotic; obstinate, the cynosure of cynicism!

The eldest child of Duke and Dutchess of York, erstwhile Prince of Wales,
The proclaimed young heir, stood far from the course of skeptic euphemism;

The heir had a historical encounter with Wallis Warfield Simpson by fatalism.
By wooing Wallis, the royal blood, turned an icon of revolutionary sarcasm!

The resultant mayhem broke, the honour, became the bottleneck of idealism;
Sagacious, was brooding strategies to be the prototype of true heroism.

The proclaimed marriage faced vehement oppositions,
All encompassing religious, political, legal and moral objections.

The outright denial to accept Wallis as the king's consort, broke the rebellion.
Edward's refusal to give her up, led to his final abdication,

When was quite apparent, he could not marry his beloved Simpson,
Settled to rebuke the throne from enticing royalism as emancipation.

The royal blood, then entitled the Duke of Windsor, a transformation after abdication.
Edward VIII, once epitome of monarchism, became an ideal icon of asceticism.

A sybarite, turned stoic by deserting seductive royalism,
to wed his ladylove; a tale of unprecedented impeccable loyalism!

The abdicator's epitaph on Royal Burial Ground, Frogmore,
is still bearing in indelible transcription,
the testimony, of an uncustomary love saga, of renunciation;

An epoch making transformation of lucrative royalism to transcendental loyalism:
by relinquishing the throne to array chronicle's unrivalled iconoclasm!

© Silpika Kalita