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Zen is a meditative state. As a poet in Zen we all write Zen Poetry. All poets who are in love with the Craft of Poetry are welcome to contribute their poems.

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What Do You See? I see a Prophecy

A time when Humanity will shape its destiny

Warren Brown
Zen Poetry
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2 min readMar 16, 2025

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Old man
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The blind man sat on a stone,
He looked out sightlessly into the unknown.
He was a wise old man and he could tell,
The future that he could see so well.

“What do you see” asked the young girl.
“I see, the future and I see the prophecy”.
The old man had lived a thousand lives,
He was blinded in the battle of the Knives.

In the history of humanity the time came,
When humans could no longer battle machines.
They fought among themselves with guns and knives.
Many lives were lost in the “Battle of the Knives”.

The blind old man could see a new war,
It was moving fast towards mankind.
The alien warriors were coming from the stars.
Humanity was not skilled for these new wars.

Artificial Intelligence could save humanity.
If only humans were not blinded by the possibility.
The blind man knew the future and had lived it well.
He was from the future and no one could tell.

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Zen is a meditative state. As a poet in Zen we all write Zen Poetry. All poets who are in love with the Craft of Poetry are welcome to contribute their poems.

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