The Importance of History

History, schmistory. Or, so you say; But without history Do you know, Where we'd be today? For history is yesterday, teaching today How to live tomorrow, So that it can live a life Of happines, Not sorrow. Oh, but alas, the lessons Of the past are spurned; At the cost of the future, Its great lessons Are not learned. We live for the present, That "here and now." We give in to our pleasures, To each whim We bow. Yet if we forget the past, We'll only repeat it; And the future we seek? We'll never truly See it. So history is important, For you see, With out history We're not better off Than the fish In the sea.