Avignon

Due in part to election of a modernist successor

The Antipope declared by mum and dad

Identified not with the rulings of this impostor.

An impostor who, with all epistolic knowledge,

Representative pomp and ecclesastical might

Denied the schism and held with a belief,

A belief unknown before,

That dissention was a right, God given;

Dissention from dogma that is.

The Antipope, in his rage

All votive calm in chaste revisionism

Systolic, diastolic pique in personal charm

Red of face, loud of voice

Deaf of ear yet all for 'Choice'

Declared a State was come to reign

Where love was King, like Jesus' come.

Sat in huff, his robes unwashed

His followers few and bored.

Love reigned in the end, that's true

It was a tough love that took no prisoner

It dictated its terms and brooked no refuge

Love dictated its terms