War Will Be A Memory Of The Past

The story has been told down through the ages of how men nailed the son of God to a wooden cross And still we hear of crimes against humanity and one person's loss of rights is everybody's loss And still we have men going to war for God and Wealth and Land and Glory though their God hardly with them would agree And many far too many go unpunished for awful crimes against humanity. Humankind has come a long way in technology but in other ways we've not come far at all And from history we have not learned the lessons though history has many lessons to recall Will the future generations know an Earthly Eden and in decades from now will young men in their prime Will not have to go to war for to prove their manhood and enjoy life in a more peaceful clime? In decades from now when I'm not here to witness there will be peace amongst the human race And for the war men and the awful despots in a peaceful World there will not be a place And the flower of peace she will be blooming lovely and war will be a memory of the past And the lessons of past mistakes will have been heeded and beautiful peace will reign supreme at last.