History Repeats Itself

We only hear of war and terrorism and crimes against humanity In the World news headlines every day on radio and t v Systematic abuse by so called soldiers on their prisoners of such we hear and see And history repeats itself or so 'twould seem to me. Of a war between the good guys and the bad guys there is no such a thing For only death and suffering war has been known to bring To the people of the Country where war is waged in many civilians in the cross fire die As between the warring parties bullets to and fro do fly. We've heard it said that war brings peace but with such I don't agree As the World seems more divided now than at anytime in history The cultural and religious divide it only seems to grow And for centuries of fighting wars we do not have much to show. In the news headlines only bad news or so it would appear And of war and death and suffering we only see and hear Yet the war that was to end all wars was waged nine decades ago And of the lessons we should have learned from history we do not wish to know.