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Dr. Herb Ruhs & grandson
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by Herb Ruhs, MD, Unknown News
January 22, 2008
With sincere apology to William Shakespeare...
To obey, or not to obey: that is the question:
Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer
The neo-cons, Cheney, and Bush.
Or to take arms against a sea of problems,
And, by opposing, end them? To die: to sleep;
No thought; and, through mindlessness, to say we end
The heart-ache of the fascist state
That we are heir to. 'tis a consummation
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Devoutly to be wish'd. To shop, to feast;
To sleep: perchance to dream: ay, there's the rub;
For, in that sleeping mind, our dreams do die
When we have shuffled off our thinking mind,
Must give us pause: there's the respect
That makes calamity of mindlessness;
For who would bear the whips and scorns of rule,
The oppressor party, the rich man's ridicule,
The pangs of betrayal, the law's scorn,
The insolence of officers, the harms
That illegitimate courts do wield,
When we bear the abuse as stones
Without complaint? Who would agree not,
To grunt and sweat under a weary life,
But that the dread of something worse,
That undiscover'd country from whose shore
No traveller returns, puzzles the will
And makes us rather bear those ills we have
Than fly to others that we know not of?
Thus does doubting make cowards of us all;
And thus our unbent will of resolution
Is sicklied o'er with no discerning thought,
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Thus opportunities slide away.
With indecision, sloth and doubt,
And lose what could have been. -- Soft you now!
The fair call of freedom stills
And all our honor rots in place.
© by the author.
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