The Same Old Story

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This is a poem/song that I wrote for my English Language and Lit Coursework. I hope you find it adequate. It is inspired by all the crap that has been going on with ISIS and Boko Haram and the Taliban. But it is also inspired by the inner conflicts that occur in our heads every day, every second. That really .... nothing changes.


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Constant pain with no gain

Anger so severe, beware

Lives kidnapped for the whims of selfishness

Facing danger for the sake of selfish wishes

A call or knock sets off tears

Setting off their fears

Cries and pleas and protest get ignored

Politicians and monarchs all look bored

If only they had children out there fighting

Then they would understand the braying

Then they would understand the aching

Then they would understand the praying

But they have no idea

They’re as unfeeling as generals from the Great War era

Look at history

It’s the same old story

The poppy sprouts new

Mourning them, mourning me, mourning you

Blood drips to the ground of this real life Camlann

Sows the seeds into the lands of no man

The poppy’s petals becoming redder and redder

Wanting life to become kinder and better

The poisons keep on growing

The poppy’s hurting

Nature’s suffering

From what we are doing

Look at history

It’s the same old story

Since the world’s been turning

The fire’s been burning

We never learn

We always make a U-turn

We don’t try to calm it

We don’t try to fight it

The pattern we can’t defeat

We’re placed on repeat

This is no way we should be living

Look at history

It’s the same old story

Words lost long ago

Whisper in the wind as it wails

Words of spite and doubt, fear and dread

Get hammered in with nails

In our mind and head

It seems as though

Even though we see it everywhere

We no longer feel

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