Jan 2020
PLACES IN THE HEART
I believe in royalty.
So one thinks of King, Queen,
Prince, Princess, Duke, Duchess,
Marquess, Marchioness, Earl,
Countess, Viscount, Viscountess,
Baron, Baroness.
But none of the above is
royalty I would ever bow to.
In fact, all, by their titles, are
charlatans.
I believe every member of the
human race is royalty. Royalty
has nothing to do with blood
lines and crowns.
Places in the heart that every
human being has, not palaces,
are the provenance of royalty. I
bow only to the regal, all my fellow
human beings on Earth.
Copyright 2020 Tod Howard Hawks
I believe in royalty.
So one thinks of King, Queen,
Prince, Princess, Duke, Duchess,
Marquess, Marchioness, Earl,
Countess, Viscount, Viscountess,
Baron, Baroness.
But none of the above is
royalty I would ever bow to.
In fact, all, by their titles, are
charlatans.
I believe every member of the
human race is royalty. Royalty
has nothing to do with blood
lines and crowns.
Places in the heart that every
human being has, not palaces,
are the provenance of royalty. I
bow only to the regal, all my fellow
human beings on Earth.
Copyright 2020 Tod Howard Hawks
A graduate of Andover and Columbia College, Columbia University, Tod Howard Hawks has been a poet and human rights advocate his entire adult life. He recently finished his first novel, A CHILD FOR AMARANTH.
