Anointed

False king, false prophet; false claims, enchantment. Heavenly voices, humanly fabricated stories. A restorer of peace and a channel to it; disturber of peace and an obstacle to it. Divine justice itself in the form of a person; or, evil-thinking, evil-speaking, evil-doing. Tests of battle, victory; interrogation, heresy. Right at the time, wrong years later. A blazing rise, a dying fall; a burning death, a risen star. Human, Saint; the human person dies, the saintly being shines. History rather than memory igniting interest.

Picture credit: Joan of Arc at the Coronation of Charles VII in the Cathedral of Reims, Jean-Auguste Dominique Ingres (source: WikiArt).

See Joan of Arc, A History by Helen Castor. 

Written May 2022.