Sovereign Nations
Scattered across a spectrum of sovereignty
Crusoe to one extreme, one worlders on the other,
Somewhere, we locate our personal comfort zone
Defining as deplorable those to our left
Evil all who fall away to our right.
The only variable among us is
How much we are prepared, willing
To grant commonality its triumph over difference.
All the rest is myopia, icon and passion,
The last refuge of scoundrels
Eternal fuels of hatred, violence and war.