Time Travel

Let us travel back in time
A long and winding road to climb

Prepare yourself for the ride
As we journey far and wide

Where peoples of all free nations
Use instant communications

When extremist groups attack 
Ordinary men fight back

With turmoil in the Middle East
We want less war and far more peace

For we have learnt from our forebears
Remember all their woes and cares

Families were split by walls 
There were no well-stocked shopping malls

Rationing for clothes and food
With elders in a sombre mood

For all their friends they lost in war
Or planes above their heads did soar

And bombs scattered all over town
No wonder men did wear a frown

Who’d seen it all just years before
In horrors of the first world war

Succumbed to gas or simply shot
Survivors living with shell-shock

Yet more were lost to spanish flu
Doctors helpless what to do

Now let us learn from lessons past
And dare not to forget too fast

How rapidly the world can change
With inventions that span a range

There is room for so much good
For everybody’s livelihood

Despite the knowledge free for all
And contact quick with just a call

The truth is ignorance is bliss
Others troubles easy to miss

Please let us then act with care
Remembering we have to share