I recall a placard
That said a knight’s
First charge was to
Protect the Catholic Church
I knew this was
Is wrong. Knights protected
Their liege. Only Templars
Protected the Catholic Church
This placard was in
A museum of armor
In a city dominated
By the Catholic Church
On my birthday my
Girlfriend surprised me and
Took me to that
Museum because she knew
How much I loved
The Chivalric Romance genre
From a Harvard course
I was taking then
What still bothers me
Is why that placard
Misrepresented what is true
In that Catholic city
David Fekete 