Modern Europe stands on the foundations
Of Cathedrals preceded by monasteries
700 of them at a days walking distance
For the medieval monk on the move to rest
Pray and refresh for onward march to reach
Messages, precious doctrine and debates
To build a Cathedral it took decades
People from lowly masons to designers
Those who housed them, their families
Provided for their sustenance, farming
Trading and commerce centralised
Into Guilds forming the economy Feudal
Serfs and near to slaving common folk
A culture gets evolved around a Cathedral
Eventually the centre of learning, business
The birth of the nowhere land into city fame
They criss cross the Europe of today
Reminders of a mode of faith being central
To life and it meant everything literally
It makes sense to observe that behind
Separation of faith and state from England
Henry had more than power and name
At stake when the economy was in hands
Of monks and monasteries and families
That nurtured and sustained a way
A new order emerges with Protestantism
Paving way for an alternative power
Sided by an alternative mode of wealth
Enshrined today in Industrialisation
The birth of parishes and churches small
For the gentry located where they produced
In factories or farmlands for the higher
Order of clergy, governance and state
The guilds give way in this transition
To an order known as Capital industry
Of Marxian fame today and Manchester
Mills, paving the way for cotton competition
Of fabrics from far off lands, colonial
The layering of a new justice system built
On ruins of pre colonial times in India
Another world yet not extinguished
As with China and other aspirants New Order
It all began with the making of a Cathedral
Including one here at the Vatican.
Spanning millennia and seeking for New
Order of faith in a world weary of war
Decimation of the lowly and far off
Such audacity of dominance needing
Corrective from faith and the core truth
Needing reselling in a new language
The world today needs to hear.