The
Crucial Question of Our Life
I
thought about it, and thought about it, and
thought
about it, but I could not puzzle out why
so
many men and women hate the former president
of
the United States, Donald J. Trump; and then,
as
I always do when I can’t see why, I let my poetry
do
the thinking for me, and out came the answer
I
was looking for: there are two co-existing paths
in
life, one that leads to our true self, and the other
that
leads to our false self, and though we are free
to
take which path we please, the choices we make
determine
which path we take, and the crucial
question
of our life should always be, as the great
American
writer John Updike asked in his “Midlife”
poem,
“Why am I me?” And the answer to the crucial
question
of our life is always determined by which
path
we take, the path to our true self, or the path
to
our false self; and Donald Trump chafes everyone
who
is not true to themselves, like the “fake news
media”
reporters and vexed political opponents who
want
to take him down and destroy him. “Fight, fight,
fight!”
became his rallying cry ever since that fateful
day
in Butler, Pennsylvania with the assassination
attempt
on his life, and if he loses the election to Kamala
Harris,
he will go down in history true to who he was,
and
one of the America’s great presidents; but if he wins,
all
signs indicate that Donald J. Trump will become
a
president of historical consequence.
Composed in Tiny Beaches,
Georgian Bay,
Southcentral, Ontario
Tuesday,
October 8, 2024
