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The Lessons Of Another Time
by David Pekrul
copyright 10-19-2006


Age Rating: 10 to 127

 
The lessons of another time have visited today,
(Let's listen well and maybe we will learn),
As history repeats itself and leaves us in dismay,
(Let's listen well and maybe we will learn).

For wars have always been around and never go away,
(But we are deaf and dumb, and cannot see),
And many are the innocent caught up inside the fray,
(But we are deaf and dumb, and cannot see).

The children are the innocent, the elderly the weak,
(How long will this abuse be theirs to bear?),
As nations fight with nations, but their leaders only speak,
(How long will this abuse be theirs to bear?).

The lessons of another time are rarely ever learned,
(We stumble on and very often fall),
And when we think that we have won, we find that we've been burned,
(We stumble on and very often fall).

We grieve and bow in mourning for the children of our youth,
(A legacy of hate is what we leave),
We tell them of the world around, but seldom tell the truth,
(A legacy of hate is what we leave).

And so the scene is played again and circles one more time,
(They listen well, but they are deaf and dumb),
And elderly and innocent are still the ones who pay,
(They listen well, but they are deaf and dumb).


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12-03-2006 Jessica P.    

Wow this is really good, kind of like the quote (except in a whole lot more detail) 'Those who cannot learn from history are doomed to repeat it'. Except, like I said, you used a heck of a lot more detail lol. Great job though, this made a lot of sense.
11-06-2006 Richard Reed Jr    

Well said. We study history so that we might learn that we never studied History, and it continues to repeat itself.

Survival of the fittest or original sin?

Thanks for this write,

Rich
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