When Will We Ever Learn

When will we ever learn
As we watch the cities burn
Someday it may be our turn
When will we ever learn

Doesn’t it make you want to cry
Watching women and children die
Look to heaven and just ask why
Doesn’t it make you want to cry

When will it be too late
Spreading venom, spreading hate
Costs that we can’t calculate
When will it be too late

On the inhumanity to man
Justify it if you can
Will there ever be a ban
On the inhumanity to man

As we face still another war
When do we say no more
Do we know what lies in store
As we face still another war

Do human beings have no shame
Do we dare to kill in God’s name
No one ever takes the blame
Do human beings have no shame

Where are all the leaders now
Shall we just accept and bow
Can prayer save the world somehow
Where are all the leaders now

When will we ever learn
As we watch the cities burn
Someday it may be out turn
When will we ever learn

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Date: 11/6/2022 7:32:00 AM
Indeed, Vince. A question asked throughout the history of humanity and we still do not have an answer, an answer we desperately need as I feel time is growing short. There is so much cruelty. I especially loved "On the inhumanity to man / Justify it if you can / Will there ever be a ban / On the inhumanity to man".. wow! imagine if we could ban the inhumanity to man and extend that to include man's inhumanity to all living things? Then we would truly have peace on Earth and goodwill towards men, women, children.. and Nature. Your extraordinary poem is thought-provoking and soulful. Warmest wishes.. ~Susan
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Date: 10/3/2022 11:59:00 AM
Vince your words are so true my friend the question you pose is a great one. History does repeat itself when there is evil in this world. Someday we will have peace and that is when our Lord returns because humanity has bad apples and these apples are corrupt and have a bad seed. We know who they are and they are set on chaos, and destruction, so sad my friend. There is hope and someday he will be there and we will be with him, to never face these barbarians again. God bless you Vince for caring
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Date: 10/3/2022 11:59:00 AM
and sharing...
Date: 7/4/2022 6:47:00 AM
All of this Vince, caused mainly by one man, and then there is another in the east desperate, to destroy many lives including like putin there own countrymen.
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Date: 4/13/2022 12:01:00 AM
Change is coming Vince.. Not as I think the Illuminati wish or are working for, this Temporal world is too subverted in its makeup The only leader is Christ, He will change all..' So many are putting hope in men but these Men will fail.'
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Date: 3/6/2022 2:03:00 PM
Indeed, where have all the "flowers" gone? When will we ever learn?
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Date: 3/6/2022 7:33:00 AM
Yes indeed, when will we learn?
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