After Seeing a Film About Churchill

          
           An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, 
           hoping it will eat him last.
        —Winston Churchill 

Looking at past history

through the lens of the present

knowing how the events played out

Judging the participants

based on the chronicle we now know

is the job of historians

and those who stare into the future

hoping to make the right moves

and not tilt the future into

a catastrophe or open up

fissures that widen into crevices 

that swallow up countries