Gunter of Cologne
(…or, Count Volkmar of Gretz)
Volmar
of Gretz, whose soul rest in peace Amen.
Followed
his brother-in-law Gunter of Cologne,
With
sixteen thousand Crusaders, to fight the infidel in Jerusalem!
In
the spirit of doing God’s will, to stop the holy sites of
Jesus
Christ from ruin.
He
was influence by his priest, Wenzel, also—
And
not by whom he called ‘The False Pope’ …
But
on the way, through German: Worms, Speyer, and even at the
Gates
of Gretz, Gunter had every Jew slain—
And
throughout Hungry and Bulgaria, the same, 30,000 of them!
Before
Volkmar could bring this genocide to its end!
A
wild frenzy, ambition of Gunter to rid the world of the Jew
The
one who incited the Romans to do their dirty work…
And
now he crossed the Golden Horn, between Europe and Asia
Only
to fight the pagan Turk, and lost all battles but one,
And
that one battle, was against Christians, a mistaking identity,
He
had killed his own kind.
Now
he had made it back to Constantinople,
Where
he met Volmar, who had been imprisoned by the Bulgarians
And
held for ransom, now freed…
With
only seven, including himself of the once 16,000-strong,
That
had crossed the strait, to fight in Jerusalem!
Hence,
where he never made it to.
And
now all he could do when he spoke to Volmar,
Was
‘giggle nervously’ like a fool!
Somewhere
along the line, he lost sight, his vision his goal, perhaps
His
mind too: and gave to Germany an ever- fore- more, stained soul…
10-31-2014/No:
4584
Note: The poem refers to the 1st
Crusade, of 1099 A.D., although these events took place a few years earlier,
and Volmar died in 1124 A.D. Gunter Cologne’s are of little interest to me.
