History must be sanitized

shouting down the scapegoats

living the insanity

of repetition with a faulty promise

“this time it will be different”

but nothing changes if nothing changes

if we do not change

our world-building done

on the backs of the vulnerable

as we heap blame

on war’s losing side

on the dead and dying

instead of finding our humanity

and stopping the madmen at last – Caroline A. Slee