Oh Clio, Clio, why do we not learn
Repeating our mistakes as if we’re blind
As if a curse afflicting human kind
Makes us reject the past at every turn
Your wisdom is our guidance and our light
Absorbing it, we grow from year to year
Then why is it that so many do fear
What’s written in our books in black and white
Dear goddess, Clio, help us lift their veil!
And make them see the lessons of the past
Their narrow minds released, and free at last
And History, unshackled will prevail!
Author notes: wc 94 https://allpoetry.com/contest/2783458-The-Nine-Muses
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