History

Trying out a new way of rhyming while talking about one of my favorite subjects.

If I could summon history's past
I'd ask it a few curious questions
I'd see if I could get some suggestions
Maybe with the present make some parallel connections
It really would be quite a blast.

If I could travel back in time
I'd like to see how people lived without today's commodities
How they dealt with atrocities
Know more about their social communities
This is a big dream of mine.

If only I could take a trip down history's road
And stand at the doorsteps of science
Live in a time where there was no electrical appliance
The heavens being the only navigational guidance
Would sure be cool to learn the Morse Code.

Life would sure be different
And as a woman, I know I'd have limited to no rights
Would only be able to read books by candle lights
With no airplane, no flights
And death from disease would be more imminent.

Still I wonder what it'd be like
When every day duties were physical
When machinery was atypical
When people were more empirical
During the age of reason's spike.

I think that those people were way more social
Face to face than we are in this age.
In the days when acting was done on stage
Even though they lived on a much more smaller wage
And sending letters was done by postal.

Life was lived in face to face interaction
When communities gathered and celebrations were real
When social activity was more surreal
Making the experience a great ordeal
Unfortunately those people's lives are hard to fully caption.

Only because they belong to history.