Some People Look At History

Some People Look At History

Some people look at history

As though it is determined by

What happened accidentally,

Despite a reason being why.

As if there hadn’t been intent

But being how events fall out,

And that nobody really meant

What history’s, in fact, about.

Because of that nobody wants

To recognize intention plays

Its role by using circumstance

To mask an evil actor’s face.

Then no one seems responsible

But in a movement goes along,

And does as any movement will

As if nothing is right or wrong.

Sophisticated folks would say,

It’s just the way it is, and so

It doesn’t matter—either way—

As it’s only the way things go;

Where they blame their society

As there is nothing they can do,

For nothing that they do can be

For them to pay attention to.

So everything that does occur

Does not do so because of us,

But tells some story as it were,

Of what somehow or other was:

Some episode; some incident;

A random act and unforeseen;

As happened just by accident,

Or may have never even been.