New poem: "The Hamlet Question Today"

 

 

The Hamlet Question Today

 

“To be or not to be, that is the question,”

said Prince Hamlet, Shakespeare’s most

conflicted character, who speaks for every

soul condemned to choose which life

to live: “to suffer the slings and arrows

of outrageous fortune,” or stand tall

and “take arms against a Sea of troubles,

and by opposing end them?” Sad, but true;

we all are called to the Hamlet question

today; but what to do? Where to go? Who

to seek for solace in woke times like these

when even our gender is in question? That’s

what the Hamlet question beckons today,

and no one knows what to do. Torn betwixt

the being and non-being or our paradoxical

nature, we do nothing. “Thus conscience

does make cowards of us all.”

 

Sunday September 17, 2023

Georgian Bay, Ontario