What Is History?

• Dingbang Li, Grade 10, Randwick Boys High School -
• Poetry
• 2018

Excellence Award in the 'Write Along 2018' competition

History is just the repeating of the past,
every just and unjust will reappear at last.
If not repeating, then start explaining,
why is working class still feeding the parricides
Like peasants feeding their feudalists,
slaves feeding their masters?


History is not just the repeating of the past,
each just and unjust will disappear with blast.
If not disappearing, then start explaining,
why are the parricides and their working class
replacing feudalists and their peasants,
replacing masters and their slaves?


Therefore, history is just an endlessly repeating cycle,
where a group of oppressed and oppressing is replaced by another.
The just and unjust will forever last,
until there is no class.