Do It In Ink
If I were to put every single historical event into a little bottle, how many bottles would I have?
If I were to put every single bad historical event's bottle into a separate room, how many good bottles would I have?
How many happy bottles would I have?
How many sad bottles would I have?
How many terrifying bottles would I have?
If I mixed all of those bottles up, would they change the world?
Would anything change if I destroyed all good bottles,
And deleted them from human history?
Would anything change if I destroyed all bad bottles,
And deleted them from human history too?
What if I destroyed all the terrifying bottles, erasing them forever?
Would anything truly change if I destroyed every slavery bottle I could find?
Would human history truly change if I did so?
Most likely not,
I'll put the bottles back into a neat little shelf,
And keep them for all to see.
Two rows for all war,
Four rows for all famine,
Three rows for bad economic change,
And a room for slavery.
All bottles, tucked into neat, tidy shelves,
I'll keep the room locked up,
No one must know the horrors within.