The Carolean Era of King Charles The Third

All the world witnessed
The coronation of Charles;
On the sixth of May.

A ceremony
In Westminster Abbey.
Twenty Twenty Three.

By bishops ordained
As head of church and of state;
By ritual crowned.

As divine ruler.
Head of the Church of England;
A priestly status.

As British monarch,
King, Country, and Commonwealth;
Sworn allegiance.

Witnessed by nations,
To serve with dignity as
Royal Protector.

Defender of Faith
Of the British Empire;
A king now crowned.

A line of descent
From year of Ten Sixty Six:
The Norman Conquest.

To now the present,
In this our modern period;
A different era.

Ten centuries later,
And House of Windsor prevails;
In Restoration.

“Rule Britannia!”
Voices of Royalists sound.
“The Kingdom Yet Stands!”

The House of Windsor
In a Carolean reign,
With King Charles The Third.

The Union Jack
Is raised as royal standard;
Aloft in nations.

Many,  too, assert,
By right of independence,
Their flags as banners.

Voices of freedom,
Beckoning nations uphold
Their native birthrights.

In this our era,
A new spirit is ushered;
Throughout all nations.

Voices of freedom,
Ringing throughout the world to…
Hail democracy.

Calling for changes.
Calling for reparations.
To ‘correct’ history.

Let all now witness:
This Carolean era
Is a transition.

From what was the past,
To current realities;
New nations rising.

With old ones falling.
The rise and fall of nations;
Contractually.

Brexit is symbol
Of the beginning of change;
Within Great Britain.

And all her regions,
For forms of reconstruction,
Within Parliament.

Times are a-changing
In the British Empire;
While Charles is crowned king.

What will succeed him,
Is now written in the wind;
In how to govern.

As people clamor,
Monarchies pay attention;
To strident voices.

Time for reflection,
On how history configures
New realities.

How changes take place
In different societies;
For their survival.

A firm prediction.
Britannia once ruled the waves.
Now the waves have changed.
The tides have also shifted,
as Britain faces history.

A royal history,
from William the First to
William, Regent.
The British crown transforming;
a thousand years having passed.

As heir to the throne,
William must consider
the consequences
of what the future might hold,
for the British monarchy.

Commonwealth nations
hunger for transformation;
beyond monarchy.
With legacies of slavery,
democracy they beckon.

This is projection
of what has not transpired;
but what may occur.
A royal house concluding,
with a king named William.

The course of history
has its own arc of justice
for societies.
Favoring the tides one way;
elsewhere, rendering turbulence.

With Charles now as king,
the Carolean era
marks a beginning;
perhaps a paradigm shift,
for new forms of government.

For restoration,
with a focus on healing.
On mending old wounds.
By right of constitution;
to restore Britain’s Good Will.

Time now, meanwhile,
To celebrate this era;
With King Charles The Third.

Long live this monarch,
In his Carolean reign.
God save his gracious kingship.