"The Sight"

Sometimes it is easier to see afar
Then to see the view from the back door.

Dalai Lama Blues

When even the godly become angry
And see their lifetime's effort gone to waste
When the enlightened concede the game
To the coarse, the base
Who claim for themselves what was made
For all, then do we find ourselves at last
Not on the heights, but on the vast
Equalizing plain where great and small
Are reduced to the same dull grains.