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   Blinkered
Leaders of great nations
Hubris-drunk in their final years
Push our world to yet another brink
Leaving us fearing they might
Commit the ultimate outrage.

Land conquest, their place in history
Fade into irrelevance and now
Have little bearing on how
Our lives will evolve.

But we too indulge ourselves in
The luxury of our petty designs
And the ambitions we hold:
Myopic, confined, restricted.

Our blinkered view of this world
Hinder us in seeing it as whole
As a unity not affected by
Human arrogance and leaves us
Blind to the destiny
Looming ahead of us.