Why History Sucks

History is the strangest thing

It repeats without an inkling

of just how tiresome it can be

when we read about the stupidity

Countries always want more resources

like food and water or, say, war horses

Take France and Germany for example

Over the Rhine land they fought and trampled

Each other in attempts to get more power

(But really, France? Your symbol's a flower?)

World War I was an absolute disaster, with

Trench warfare, tanks, and Belgium, but afterwards

The Treaty of Versailles seemed to bring peace

Nazism, however, was on the increase

And soon after that began World War II

In which Hitler rose up and killed lots of Jews

And the Axis Powers lost quite spectacularly

But they left many painful marks in our books, historically

All the wars after were not much better

The drain on our economy leaving us fettered

Politicians can't listen for shouting

In the meantime, our oceans are dying

Because of pollution and other mistakes

That people keep making 'cause it's our nature to take

And take and take until there's nothing left to give

Then we beg for one more day, just one more day to live

In suffering, if we must, to atone for our sins

But all we really want is to save our own skins

Reading about all this; it just makes me sad

That though we're so good, we're so incredibly bad

To others, ourselves, we can't even say

A simple “Please” or a “Thank you” and make somebody's day

Our lives are built on the deaths of so many people

Yet we still shoot down others with nary a scruple

We don't learn from our mistakes; we don't care to fix this flaw

And one day soon, that indifference will doom us all.

((And that's why history sucks.))

-Sophia