The American Dream is Not Dead

Bring your bare basket to the door
and fill it well for there is more.
Do not feel you have to wallow
in self-pity or to swallow
that bitter pill of retribution.
Let love be a substitution
for what greedy men may devise
to bring about your demise.
As long as free men have a prayer,
there will be those who truly care.

To this dry earth, some rain will fall
to quench the thirst of us all
and in the middle of the shower
let each man feel freedom’s power
of being able to make a choice
and having nothing stop his voice.
So basket barer, step on through
and find the life awaiting you.
With your own hands you hold the key,
to a world where men are free.