The American Dream
It is the American Dream What we all strive for and imagine Indouble-wide trailers to double-wide mansions In sprouting lakes of fake fish. Nothing captures its essence Unbound by time or dust or rot The things we cherish still are lovingly patted And brought through the centuries. It is more than a dream now It's a reality that the million shave made Our heart and soul builds the heaven on earth. A refuge for the sick, And a shelter for the needy, It is everything we desire. In the cherry trucks and laughing children To indolent teenagers with smoke circling We see our dream and the actuality It may not be perfect, but it is our heaven And so disillusioned we conjure forth our hope. In the picket fences we see our childhood In the sky we see our adulthood And in the middle we see our life. Suspended, but not contained, It is the dream that wakes within us all. -By Amy H., Wichita, KS |
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