New poem: "Nature's Most Complete Man"

 

Nature’s Most Complete Man

 

“Man must complete what nature cannot

finish,” said the mystic philosopher George

Ivanovich Gurdjieff; but how far can man

evolve on his own? “He has to be the most

complete man that Nature can create,” I said

to myself, as I listened to President Trump

speaking in Pennsylvania as he launched his

campaign for the midterm elections; and what

came to my mind was the poet Goethe’s famous

line from his play Faust: “Two souls, alas, are

housed within my breast; and each will wrestle

for mastery there.” Jesus said, “the kingdom

will come when the two will be made one.” But

I saw no wrestling in Trump’s proud chest as he

spoke about the economy and what he had done

so far to make America safe, strong, wealthy,

and great again. What I saw instead was Nature’s

most complete man who spoke for both souls

in his chest, neither one denying the other the

right to be heard; and the longer he spoke,

the more I fell in love with the wonder

of Trump’s paradoxical nature.

 

Composed in Tiny Beaches,

Georgian Bay, Southcentral, Ontario

Tuesday, December 9, 2025