Divine Right

Authority drives Dante's epic verse
betrayal strikes him as the basest crime
the rights of kings who rule his universe
portrayed as if they're constant over time
Enlightenment throws all that upside-down
where citizens are masters of all things
the deference expected for the Crown
can't bend our knee, now we've thrown off our kings
O brave new world, scaled to Humanity
where ethics bind the high just like the low
new values by which to judge history
don't swerve because a tyrant tells us so
Political Philosophy's a whore
to trust such weak foundations at its core