History will teach us nothing
because we’re too dumb to learn
we’re too superior
we’re different than them
from back when
It can’t happen to us
We’re too good
and our smugness
lays our weakness
the arrogance of a fool
unable to scope the magnitude
of the situation
too dense to admit it
not wise enough
to let go of the ego
and see it with clarity
with newborn virgin eyes
but that is humility
and we run from it
like it were a leper
afraid of the gifts it bears
History will teach us nothing
because we do not
want to take that honest look
and see what we were
and until we see what we were
we can’t know what we are
or set the right tone
to better what we will become