The end of the Romanovs
By valiswaverider
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The sense of awe down the generations
The prestige which is the aristocratic birth right
Dies slowly at the birth of the intelegensia
Pageantry is empty when tanks flatten earth and Europe drowns
In muddy conflict
Great families fight Againist themselves
Raising peasant army's
But these peasant tire of industrial slaughter and industrial work which unbinds them from their land
The soil built ties
For King
For tsar
For Kaiser
For what ?
For endless labour and little reward
For a fiction of heaven
The peoples opium
For the enlightenment holds no divine right of Kings
If right is not pronounced by God
Then from where is authority issued
Fraternity and Liberty abroad
So why not here the people cry
The Mad monk has the ear of the queen
perform a modern miracle
By whispering to a faulting child
Heir to a faulting empire
Things fall apart
Just as flesh is no match for an ideal
To face reality all illusions most by fates decree come crashing down
A new year dawns
And with it a new era
February
International women's day
In the streets all turns silent
The machines grid to a halt
The state turns white then red
In the heat which ends oppression
As the ties to old society are cut
This is the Soviet
October
an empty palace is raided
Shots ring out in a basement
Half a world away imperial Russia
Ends in the remoteness of wildness
And enters legend
What once was yesterday
Is now an old world never to be revisited
Lenin boards a train in Zurich
Returned from exile
To start a second revolution
He know it can only end
In total revolution or execution for him and his followers
later illiterate peasants
Learned of their elevation
In Murals on the side of trains
Zig/ zagging mother Russia
The end of reign of centuries
Cut down in a hail of bullets
A bloody slaughter
No member of the family left alive
No one to reclaim the old way
No new dawn at the end of empire
The rest of the century is a war of systems
The state
The wealthy
The individual
Each one over turning the other
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I enjoyed this poem. I can
I enjoyed this poem. I can see the history as you describe it. What a story, but also a very sad story!
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Russia certainly had some
Russia certainly had some really bad times, over many years. I feel sorry for the people of all groups and classes who suffered, including the Royal Family, who once out of power should not have been relevant any more. Stalin who took over the revolution was the worst monster any nation has ever been given! It all makes you wonder what might have happened if certain events had gone differently!
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