
New war same as the old wars. History repeats.
I have always been an avid reader. I particularly like ancient history. I loved reading of exotic places and events that shaped the world. Then I noticed something very strange to me. It was the cyclical nature of events.
Time and again the same pattern of events would occur. Mankind would seem to repeat the same mistakes over and over. The religious wars that have been such a scourge on mankind, the repeated barbarian invasions on the civilized world, the list goes on.
I wrote the poem in an attempt to clarify my confusion ay man’s repeated stupidity and the utter pointlessness of experience without learning.
History
It’s tragic to know at last
how little we learn from the past.
History we see as but a muse,
intelligence we do not use
to learn the key from those who’ve seen
mistakes aplenty there have been.
How much we do in name of faith
reducing others to a wraith.
Because beliefs in God do differ
release the arrow, fill the quiver,
rush headlong, headlong to war
never, ever keeping score
of those who die in their God’s name,
seeking glory, finding shame.
Children dying for no reason
other than our bloody treason
Forsaking history’s call to reason,
look back and see our future’s fate
we are knocking at the gate
of death, disaster and disease
simply that we can appease
the thought that our way is the best,
never putting to the test
past history’s lesson that there may
be many more than just one way.
To live our lives so all may gain
love and tolerance that in the main
was missing from the daily lives
of husbands, fathers, mothers, wives.
Let us look where we have been
let past mistakes be ever seen
so past be not the future still
and live according to God’s will.
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