All Comments on 'The Race'

Disillusioned by the false promise of consumerism, that game of chance that laughs at expectations of achieving what you deserve for the effort you put into it, your poem seems to end with a sense of hopelessness in the face of forces that are too big to deal. However the last line is ambiguous for me and my subtly turn everything around.<br><br>

The "Should" (with its initial cap) in the last line emphasizes the sense of betrayal in the realization that the race is fixed but leaves me unsure of where the poetic voice goes for resolution. Does the poem end in hopeless or is the poet energized by outrage to seek elsewhere for purpose in life?

Keep going, Sharvanem, this is good.