Death of a Nation?

gagged actors / hog-tied poets / blindfolded painters /
storm-clogged brains

hidden economic threats / openly-displayed egoism / exponentially-rising costs /
creativity-strangling limits

worshipped technology / unnecessary people / self-serve everything /
cookie-cutter world

Governments
Manage best
When the talents of all
Are valued.
Have we strayed
Too far
To avoid failure?

seeking truth / serving others / loving life
salvaging history

Native form quennet