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A Metaphor for the American Dream

June 29, 2014
By Sidney_ BRONZE, Iowa City, Iowa
Sidney_ BRONZE, Iowa City, Iowa
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Favorite Quote:
"Humanity takes itself too seriously. It is the world's original sin. If the caveman had known how to laugh, history would have been different." - Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Grey


Our relationship is a metaphor for the American Dream
Because there's hope and there's joy and there's laughter.
Because there's anger and irritation and name calling
Our relationship is a metaphor for the American Dream.

You see our relationship,
It started in winter and ended with spring.
We cross and run over but it ends in a blink.
Our relationship is a metaphor for the American Dream
And it’s one of the best things that could happen to me.

Of course there’s work and more work
to get a taste of real living.
Because I've been learning
That money makes us grow here
To lead a life without fear.

And our relationship is bashful,
I was the Berg and you are the Bach --
We keep quiet to live the american Gleam
It is simply a metaphor for the American Dream.

I had a Dream when I came here, and
Oh it was fun to Dream of this Dream.
And have this relationship
The metaphor for the American Dream.


The author's comments:
I wrote this poem for a friend of mine, and the only poet in my life, as a birthday present. I promised him this poem would become famous on the internet. Of course that'll hardly happen but here it is.

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