AMERICA - 2008 -
Markets crashing
Races clashing
Sexes bashing
Racers dashing
Teeth gnashing
Dealers stashing
Politicians hashing
Deals, trashing
Ideals, flashing
Money, smashing
Hopes, gashing
Gaping wounds
in the American Soul.
So we seek
Liberation
From the desolation,
Desperation driving us to
Isolation causing
Confrontation between
He and she, interrogation ...
No one is free.
We are a nation
Under sedation by
Money
Power
Greed
While corporations
Lay the foundations
For the creation
Of our demise.
But there is hope,
We can cope
There is no rope
That can bind a soul
Which has paid its toll.
There is a broader scope
If we but stroll
Through our desires
To find the fires,
Send them through the wires.
We'll pass the test
We want the best
Leave the rest,
That which we detest,
To those who jest
About the blessed.
They have not guessed
What we have close to the vest
Ardent in the chest
Is a driving desire
To do more than survive
But to live and to thrive
United and strong
Yes, we belong
To each other
And to ... AMERICA.
Michelle Wooten
© 10/9/08
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Comments: 10
Peace,
media complex that originated the obsession with more and more STUFF--much more than any of us could afford. WE have to tell them to take their SUV's, their $100 concert tickets, their Gucci fashions, their commercial-bloated t.v. programs, their McMansions--ALL the things with which we can never be satisfied-- and stuff them all. Then we can begin to look for true satisfaction in life. Thanks for your verse. It's a voice. It's a beginning
Be well!
be well!