Ronald L. Faust

My autobiography weaves into the story about Ant X in A Room Full of Shadows. But I often share poetry and political commentary in Facebook on Ronald L. Faust. I think my hidden side is revealed in the novel GAPS by pseudonym Mac Keyes and my collection of love poetry called Five Faces of Love also by Mac Keyes.

High points of my life are 50 years of married love on June 8, 2019, getting a doctorate in 1980, watching my children and grandchildren grow up, sharing deep friendships with the Bobs of my life, and all the fun times on the sailboat Sabbatical.

What I enjoy is creating poetry, such as in the following sampling:

"Deconstruction"

So quick to destroy

What takes so long

To build up

Like a two-year old

Knocking down blocks

Just to hear them crash

So goes the White House

These days of deconstruction

That takes away

The non-profits

Of concern for the poor

In favor of a business operation

That makes money for the rich

By piling money into the military

And ignoring, even assaulting

the welfare of the people

And if this was the agenda

Of the conservative

How do they live with themselves

Knowing that it looks selfish

Even sneaky and dishonest

To out-maneuver the resistance

By avoiding questions

That disclose the truth

The divisions are painful

The ethics of the greater good

Are lost in superficiality

The forces of fear push away

The gentler persuasion of love

So it seems so it seems

Violence doesn’t always prevail

Enough people can turn about

The destruction of the climate

Or save a nation from ruination

But this is our hope, a fragile hope

Like a last-second basketball shot

So close but it’s not just one game

We are still given another chance

If we are spared from the nuclear option

As the Good Book reminds us

To choose life over death

As long as we breathe our next breath.

3/24/17 Found in dpfkc.faithweb.com

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