FICTION AND TRUTH

 

Often, we hear, everything is going as planned

This from the Leader of our land,

He has told us so many fictional stories

Our brains now hold debacle memories

 

Major combat ended, he proclaimed in his Gestapo suit

Little did we know he was a churlish brute!

Taking down the strong-man was just the inception

Of what we now know about this fiasco of destruction

 

Life is about learning from our errors to live another day

“I have made none,” he says, so I will continue to do things my way,

He will be President till January two thousand and nine

Hold not your breath, for he will never be sublime

 

Better we have God as our Guardian and our possession

Than Bush’s ideology and his pre-emptive invasion,

May infinite wisdom cure us of the madness of self-confidence

And make our Lord the sustainer of all providence.

© Sheriff Ali 2006

Author’s Comments

[US Supreme Court Justice, Anthony Scalia] “It is the raw material from which legal fiction is forged; a vicious murder; an anonymous Psychic tip; a romantic encounter that jeopardize a plea agreement; an allegedly incompetent defense and a death sentence imposed by a purportedly drug-addled Judge. But, as Mark Twain observed, Truth is often stranger than fiction because fiction has to make sense.” I quoted Justice Scalia’s statement so that you can reflect on the imperfections of “our” own society. Mr. Bush’s adamant arrogance about exporting democracy, numbs the mind, for his export of democracy to Iraq, has certainly turned out to be a tragedy.