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American Crisis

March 4, 2013
By Rootsman123 BRONZE, Raleigh, North Carolina
Rootsman123 BRONZE, Raleigh, North Carolina
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In the forest, light fails to make itself known
2. Wandering, wandering through the dense brush
3. Searching for the answer and meaning
4. Of “In God We Trust”
5. Walking and running through time
6. Encountering snakes and glimpses of sunshine

6. America is in the dark, for sunshine
1. Has blinded its perception of all that is known
5. It reachs for hope, for more repayment time
2. This mess, this mess a simple sweep of the brush
4. Cannot save for China we now trust
3. The search for educational solutions and the forefather’s meaning

3. Darkness prevails and meaning
6. Is difficult to find without help from the glorious sunshine
4. Dreaming of a leader, someone we can trust
1. Although it is not yet known
2. This man’s solutions are not simply a brush
5. But a deep, dark hole that will lead us into doom at any time

5. The clock is ticking, the cliff is drawing near, we need to utilize time
3. Digging for an answer, digging for meaning
2. In this hole, we have been buried in the golden brush
6. Masked by the golden leaves and greed, missing is the sunshine
1. The statisticians have known
4. Yet we Americans have failed to trust

4. For Wall Street bankers, money is where they invested their trust
5. For Wall Street bankers, the stock exchange spelled anything but doom time
1. Lavish trips, eccentric parties, the bankers and politicians are dumb for not having known
3. To them America had an infinite debt ceiling and a single meaning
6. Their lives were temporarily illuminated by an artificial sunshine
2. Because of their foolishness, death we will soon brush

2. The last hope for America lies in the paint brush
4. Of the leaders that we can hardly trust
6. Maybe one day, the light of the sunshine
5. Will brighten the faces of the defeated and renew America’s time
3. Make visible the true meaning
1. Make everything visible and invisible known

5-1. The amount of time that we can still survive is not known
6-2. In the future, sunshine we may hopefully be able to brush
3-4. Maybe in the end we will know the true meaning of “In God We Trust”.


The author's comments:
Inspired by America's current economic and education crisis

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