Very nicely done. Glad to see you are writing poetry once more. I take it from the bottom discussion, this is a new one? From the poem and below discussion, I take it also, that we sometimes NEVER seem to learn from history either. The same, repeatable mistakes. Maybe someday...
Ah, no this is one of the ones I had saved up unfortunately - I'm still pretty spent on the whole poetry front. Getting feedback is always so valuable though :) At the end of the day, there's no real guarantee history will move in the 'right' direction, no guarantee it will go anywhere but forward.