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A Hundred Years
A Hundred Years Ago
There was so much hope
So much joy.
We thought we would never again be so stupid.
We thought we had learned our lesson.
But we hadn’t had we?
Each new generation insists on making its own mistakes.
Reinventing itself stubbornly
Refusing to learn from those who learned so painfully.
We look back now
on this day
and insist it isn’t so.
Of course we remember,
of course we care
of course we can find the right words
on this day
A Hundred Years later.
But we carelessly stumble away from the unity which was the child of that painful lesson.
We disregard what progress there has been.
We think it can never happen here, to us.
We are too modern, surely?
But will we still look so modern
In a Hundred Years?
There was so much hope
So much joy.
We thought we would never again be so stupid.
We thought we had learned our lesson.
But we hadn’t had we?
Each new generation insists on making its own mistakes.
Reinventing itself stubbornly
Refusing to learn from those who learned so painfully.
We look back now
on this day
and insist it isn’t so.
Of course we remember,
of course we care
of course we can find the right words
on this day
A Hundred Years later.
But we carelessly stumble away from the unity which was the child of that painful lesson.
We disregard what progress there has been.
We think it can never happen here, to us.
We are too modern, surely?
But will we still look so modern
In a Hundred Years?
Published 13th Feb 2023
Author's Note
Written on the 100th anniversary of the armistice of world war one.
All writing remains the property of the author. Don't use it for any purpose without their permission.
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