New poem: "Old Habits Are Hard to Break"

 

Old Habits Are Hard to Change

 

Tolstoy began his great novel Anna Karenina

with the famous sentence, “All happy families

are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its

own way.” It’s an old cliché, the more things

change, the more they stay the same; but what

was the logic of Tolstoy’s thinking? Why are happy

families happy, and unhappy families unhappy?

What did the great Russian novelist know about

families that rang so true throughout the ages?

I watched the 47^th President of the United States,

Donald J. Trump, deliver his first joint session

of Congress speech to the divided families of the

Republican and Democratic Parties, beginning with

the declaration “AMERICA IS BACK,” and Tolstoy’s

most famous sentence came to mind. It was ironic

that the Democratic family sat to the right side

of President Trump as he delivered his speech, and

the Republican family sat to his left; but it became

obvious by how the two Parties reacted to President

Trump’s NEW GOLDEN AGE OF AMERICA speech

which family was woke-free, functional, and happy,

and which family was still infested with the woke

ideology of false empathy, dysfunctional, and  

unhappy. Old habits are hard to change.

 

Composed in Tiny Beaches,

Georgian Bay, Southcentral, Ontario

Wednesday, March 5, 2025