Why is it that we hate atrocities and injustice,

We watch history before our eyes,

We see the hell and pain and more,

We promise ourselves never again.

But if we lived in another time

And witnessed the same thing before our eyes,

How many of us would hold true to our words.

How many of us would become those same monsters?

If only history could speak, you would hear the warnings

The desperate cries of help, begging to never again.

The world to end all wars. If only.

Never again. And yet again and again.

We just don't see it,

If only you could force a blind man to see.

If history could speak, you would hear the screams

Feel part of your life shattered.

You would see the lies by those who write it,

The tears of the past still crying

The truth that speaks beautiful lies.

Some will deny it. Some will stick their heads under the sand.

We do nothing until we become the victim,

But then we realise there's no one to defend us

While humankind continues to not be so kind.