Toledo
Once Home to Scholars
By: Charles Giuliano - Dec 19, 2015
Toledo
Until 1492
When Columbus
Sailed the ocean blue
Great scholars
Jews, Christians, Muslims
Lived and worked
Side by side
In ancient Toledo
City on a hill
Painted by El Greco
Passing through
Packa the guide
Squat and comical
With sweeping geture
Now there are
No Jews
Visiting ancient
Synagogue
Like the mosque
In Granada
Today a church
Long ago
Borders sealed
With God
On its side
Backed by
Inquisition
Cure for nation
Keeping it pure
In Toledo's cathedral
Filled with gold
Where did it come from
Our student from Peru
Asked in anger
Evoking Conquistadors
Looting his ancestors
Not missing a beat
Packa explained
There were many
Gold mines
In Spain
Long before
Lorca
And Franco
Blood of the poets
Soaked the land
Valley of the Fallen