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2000 Years What Have We Learned?
Contributed by
tashban
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Saturday, 6th March 2004 @ 04:30:02 PM in AEST
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2000 years what have we learned?
To consume, devour, build and burn.
Worship serve earn and save;
To war and rape, capture and enslave.
Torture and kill in more efficient ways,
Steal, cheat, distort and maim.
A race is on, a human race,
To advance and develop with thoughtless haste.
A machine we’ve made an effective one,
Which destroys our world we call our home.
Let’s slow it down, retread the years,
Of endless suffering and bitter tears.
When mankind’s main goal infused power and greed,
To rid the earth of race and creed.
A new millennium draws near, I hope and pray,
For our children’s sake they see the day.
Of raising a family, experiencing love.
Not the witnessing of violence or the spilling of blood.
2000 years what can we learn?
To honour, cherish, love our own.
Care for our elderly, conserve our fuel.
Open our hearts make our promises true.
Stop the wars that emerge each day,
For if we don’t well fade away.
Let’s make a new start by 2001,
Let’s stop this race into oblivion.
Secure the future for our children’s sake,
Let’s make amends,
It’s not to late…
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tashban
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2004-03-06 16:30:02]
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Re: 2000 Years What Have We Learned?
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by Jenni_Kalicharan on
Saturday, 6th March 2004 @ 05:30:00 PM AEST
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Very good write, Tash...even now, in 2004..it's not too late to start....
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Re: 2000 Years What Have We Learned?
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by EternitysLyre on
Saturday, 6th March 2004 @ 09:13:36 PM AEST
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Well-written indeed. Your words a poignant and the rythm is sound; you have taken a worthy message, and elevated its value with a keen sense for literature.
Laudably done.
"The clouds embody dreams so dear; in bolts of doubt and acrid tears."
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Re: 2000 Years What Have We Learned?
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by Former_Member on
Saturday, 6th March 2004 @ 11:06:04 PM AEST
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| Being as we still have people starving in this world of plenty, dying for lack of adequate healthcare, being beaten, raped, deprived of human needs, I would save we have learned nothing. Now we are in war, which never begats anything but more war. We are now crushed with hatred, bigotry, racism and political greed. Nothing, we have learned nothing. If something is not done soon mankind will be the end of his world. |
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Re: 2000 Years What Have We Learned?
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by morelikelyrics on
Sunday, 11th April 2004 @ 05:24:46 PM AEST
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very deep and moving!!! *applauds*
I enjoyed immesnely, and it made me think very deliberately about the world today...
Thank you for writing this, as well as waking me to reality...
...and all the girls in every girly magazine can't make me feel any less alone...
~morelikelyrics |
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