Why mark history by acts of war.
Make daily news so frightening.
Why make it look like man is always fighting,
getting hurt, being downright brutal greedy?
Makes the world look so uninviting.
Why teach history by measured cups of
heroes villains savours.
Take, kill, watch your back.
Wipe out the natives, savages all.
Make the story taller than tall.
Then honour some named.
Monument placed -
in Trafalgar, Washington, Red, Tiananmen Square.
Showing our children -
We mark history,
by acts of war.
Why mark history by war
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