Why

From my dad I learned the language of Freud;
Learned the stock markets would one day fall;
That the housing market was like a steroid;
I learned how to predict the future’s laws.

From my mom I learned the facts of life;
I learned that man was man, and a woman woman.
I learned love conquers all of life’s strife.
 She called me a philosopher, and that would stand.

My mind was a garden of wars and dialogues;
It was filled with lusts for adventure’s safe
In my child’s play. Never had I heard demagogue’s
Tongue, never had my mind been influenced by hate.

My best friends taught me play, structure and wisdom.
My apparition of love taught me the purpose of life.
My country taught me the value of freedom.
My apparition of love taught me to seek a wife.

Like Chateaubriand or Milton I fell in love with her,
The idea, the perfect form of woman played her part:
Her ideal was there to ever in my imagination ensure
That my purpose would serve to chasten the heart.

I read over fifty of the timeless classics,
I pursue the secret certainty in geometry.
I have seen highest goodness in love’s charming hex;
I have tasted the lowest evils by hatred’s calumny.

I have seen both the highest goods and lowest ills;
I have studied the art of Word for fifteen years.
I have known what it is like to kill
And to wake up from that nightmare’s fear.

I have a science of the soul exact and true.
I understand men both good and bad.
I understand what drives me and you
I only wish not to be a passing fad.