History Lesson

curious, mysterious, delirious, oblivious

sincere, adhere, profiteer, how near?

woes, below, does it snow?  do we know?

achieve, relieve, believe, reprieve

we consume the unnatural with ardent fire

explosions last beyond our desire

the things that make us question are erased

at times to be locked up and encased

in glass where they can no longer breathe

and their people roar and rumble and seethe

so much twisting, turning, twirling to go

where we can find peace in what we know

and after all, isn’t that the goal: to live

in harmony, loving one another?

let us all try—that much is no mystery

let us make it work before we are history