Life Message ?

In My Opinion: I discovered the following poem. I felt that it wasn't fluid in either style or structure and the author had some editing to do. The rhythm is a bit lost in some places and the connections that the author tries to make between stanzas as well as within them leave the reader somewhat confused. The poem sounds elementary. The message is clear to me, however. But I feel that the point can be made even clearer with a few adjustments.

Two images spawned

From a broken glass:

One showed things present-day

One dwelled in the past

And the latter, showing presents

that wouldn’t last,

Is the one I’d stand surveying…

Tragedy by means

Of the Ku Klux Klan

And vile genocide

By Hitler’s hand

Showed me detriment

Within the civility of man

At this, I longed for hope’s prevail

Now, where this glass told

Of the world’s unrest

It accommodated the

Need for happiness

Through time man has changed

That of man’s progress

And with that hope had been restored

In man’s lifetime

Sadness plays a role

He commits himself

To his own downfalls

And in time his

‘State of mind’ can take its toll

“Desperate times call for desperate measures”

But, alas, sadness

Met a match that’s fair

To which enmity and heartache

Couldn’t compare

This term we call ‘love’,

Fervor, its heir

Ceases all grief’s vengeful pining

Thus the precepts gained

from this noble shard

Shared Life’s message to me:

“Everything in life’s hard -

to succeed, we need to accept and disregard,

‘Stop existing, now, start living!’

Perhaps I'm a bit too picky but, in its present format, is the message still clear? What do you suggest might make this piece stronger?