1464, Another failed attempt

   1464

Pope Pius ll shouldered,
            [the burden of the cross during the Crusades
he departed for Ancona to participate in person,
                  [as the crusading army in Ohrid, invades.

Historians, not sure if it was on purpose,
                         [or they just did not mention,
that the true and final destination,
was Constantinople,
                                [and not the Holy Land,
but unfortunately the crusaders,
                      [did not go further east inland.

Another failed attempt at reclaiming Christian territories,
of the the empire with the countless victories and glories,
which plundered in 1202 from other Crusaders,
                    [and by then it was weak, feeble, unforceful,

Now all over Christian people prayed ,
                                   with a kind of remorse, remorseful,

they should have helped to prevent,
                       [the fall of the last fortress of Christianity

and realized also, that it was inanity insanity inhumanity.

Now the Ottomans advancing unbeaten,
                                              [threatening everyone,
and the countdown to rule all of Europe had begun...

350 years passed, to the year 1827,
                            [and in Navarino, a united Christian fleet,
will prove who is boss after one Ottoman conclusive defeat.

All Christian territories were recovered except one,
                                            [Constantinople with the valuable channel.

It is obvious that some people,
           [are afraid of the old empire to assemble,
and they prefer disassembly or better dismantle....

Britain at that time held every strategic point on the earth,
                                                         [each channel and each pass.

Why not this one, is a crucial point, it is a question,
                                            [one puzzle to my mind, an impasse ..
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 to be continued

''IT COULD BE OTHERWISE in verse''
Texts and Narration: Odysseus Heavilayias - ROTTERDAM //
Language adjustments and text adaptation: Kellene G Safis - CHICAGO//
Digital adaptation and text editing: Cathy Rapakoulia Mataraga - PIRAEUS//
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