The Lessons We Should Have Learnt From History Poem by Francis Duggan

The lessons we should have learnt from history when the history of mankind we recall
By us it would seem not been noted from history we've not learnt at all
As men still wage war on each other and thousands of innocents die
Not from the cross fire of the warring soldiers but from death exploding from the sky.

And always the poor and the innocent suffer as the numbers of the war dead grow
The surviving poor remain on in the bombed cities as the people with nowhere to go
They don't hold much hope for a future their shacks once their home all destroyed
They are trapped in their cocoon of terror with nowhere to flee to and hide.

In war the wealthy seldom suffer in bombed cities they don't remain
It is the poor without assets or money who are left to absorb all of the pain
The mistakes of the past are repeated and in wars even the so called winners don't win
And war still waged for God and Country by ruthless egotistical men.

To the lessons we should have learnt from history not much notice to we seemed to pay
As man's inhumanity to his own kind is still relevant to this day
And always the poor and the innocent are the people who suffer and die
When their homes are damaged or demolished by the odd stray bomb from the night sky.