Tom Wright Poet Lyric

History Is What It Was

History is what it was
By: Miracle Man
10/9/2018

History is the recording of our past events,
But now there are those with desire to change.
When we allow this we’re setting precedents,
By misrepresenting facts that they rearrange;

We can’t omit things from the printed page,
Just because it was bad or we don’t agree.
It still happened though dissenters disengage,
Some things in history were indeed beastly.

By tearing down statues or changing a name,
Or renaming a holiday doesn’t make us sage.
Filling young minds with falsehoods is the game,
Each time history’s changed on the printed page;

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Sand Blown December 31, 2018 at 12:06 PM true...history cannot be erased only changed...but there exist people events that are not in books, only gov't documents...these should be in history books too Tom Wright December 31, 2018 at 2:17 PM true, thanks for your comments Tom