Archive 12/18/08 - (3)

   

The Brink

                                                                         

People are being laid off, foreclosed on, bankrupted.

Specters of the Great Depression are revisiting us,

Standing in soup lines, selling apples, sleeping in shelters.

 

And all I can think is that this nation is done,

Has sunk to the depths of irreparable desperation, death —

Another of history's victims, civilization's descents.

 

Is there anything that can bring us back from the brink?

Can we give up our American waste of life,

For a way of life based on the blessings of less and less?

 

 

 

 

 

 

                

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