where are the Hapsburg's who once were important indeed?/ part 1

where are the Hapsburg's who once were important indeed?

fiction
Edward w Pritchard


Where are the Hapsburg's who once were important indeed?

Where is your lost and gone youth which once was important to you indeed?

The Hapsburg's were for five hundred years Europe's greatest ruling family but now no one talks about them and no one knows or cares about the lost and gone Hapsburg's and their forgotten exploits and attempts at changing Europe and the world.

Our youth was a long time ago and we were going to change the world and we were going to be important. We were going to be significant indeed.

The Hapsburg dynasty began in Switzerland with Count Radbot [ 985-1045]. You were born in America in [ fill in your dates here/ born-, died-,].

The Hapsburg's fought many wars acquiring property, trying over and over to produce male heirs, and strutting their hegemony about. You strutted about too years ago [ fill in your past exploits here ] .

Eventually after producing and devising much and creating much mayhem the once powerful and productive Hapsburg's died out when on July 4th 2011 Crown Prince Otto von Hapsburg died at the age of 98. Someday you too will be gone too perhaps living to be 98 years old or more as well.

The once powerful and important Hapsburg empire is long gone. The Hapsburg dynasty exists now  only in the temporary memories of a few junior high students cramming for a test or a wealthy over weight American tourist in Vienna about to over indulge in some strudel.

Who will remember us when we are gone and no more? Who will sing our exploits and who will remember the important things we once created?

Who will retell our tale?

Old friends do not grow weary when I retell my few adventures over and over, each time with embellishment and each time with my part of the tale made more and more daring and important.

I hear the whisper of the Hapsburg dynasty.

Where are the Hapsburg's who once were important indeed; where are we, you and I?  Where is We and Us who once set out to change the world and to be remembered as important and eternal?

What says our dynasty?