history repeating by Ruth (a.k.a. cooliochica)

tell me pa
a boy once said
is it true that peace
is really dead?

yes said dad
who didn't think much
the boy left for school
with death in his clutch

in history class
the teacher explained bout war
how the world suffered
how we don't need more

the boy laughed
and the class grew calm
he said if peace is dead
then why not bomb

why not kill the suffering
why waste the air
with people who are different
why even care

that night his pa thought it was
time to teach the boy the facts
not about manhood or girls
but about those 'dirty blacks'

he put on his white hood
and ran with the dark
that night the boy saw
how to crush a family's heart

his dad burnt a house
and smiled at the sight
of fear on the blacks faces
who lost there home that night

a year after that night
his dad had passed
and the boy felt enraged
and his hatred grew fast

the boy knew that
it was the world's fault
so revenge must be taken
he joined that white mans cult

the army wouldn't take him
too much violence on the brain
even his ma had to admit
that he was truly insane

the rejection was too much
he was ready to kill
his anger was present
when he went against a girl's will

the victims he began to rape
the souls he had to destroy
the body's of human's
he only saw as toys

one day he walked outside
and remembered what his daddy had said
the boy felt he ought to make him proud
so he beat a black girl dead

a month later he met
a girl as pretty as could be
the next year they married
and had a new born baby

when the girl learned what he was really like
she tried to run
but the boy did find her
and used daddy's gun

he took the kid
and moved far away
and raised the child
his own father's way

the kid began to understand
what his dad had taught
outside the child abused
and at school the child fought

the boy was now a man
and decided to prove it to his late daddy
and went to a middle school
and raped a girl madly

but that girl was smart
and after he ran straight home
and told her mommy
who picked up the phone

the call was to the police
and the girl identified the man
the man knew it was time
so his little family ran and ran

but this time was different
the cops were hot on his trail
and finally they caught up
and put his ass in jail

the kid went to his grandparents
who he's never met
he came there with anger
and his father's soul he kept

a year later
the man was dead
some inmates heard of his past
and beat him till he bled

the world may be safe
from the man's rage and heat
but because his furious son
history must repeat

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