To ignore the distant
Or most recent past
Is to breed repetition
Hindsight's twenty-twenty
History teaches
Learn from your mistakes
Do not repeat
Keep looking back
For as long as it takes
Do not forget
For if we do
The same mistakes
For me and you
Again and again
we'll fall short
Our future no better
Than it was before
History
The best teacher
And all we have
Reflecting back
