How To Become An American Idol Poem by Sonny Rainshine

She drives 100 miles in sleet and ice
to the hospice where she works
because she knows that Mrs. Greene
is in the last stages of lung cancer.
She is an American Idol.

He gives up his only free day
to take his son camping
so that they can watch the wildlife
and name the trees.
He is an American Idol.

She never says a bad word
about what people are wearing,
or how they speak,
or what they do in the bedroom,
or what they believe to be true.
She is an American Idol.

He spends every other evening
offering free legal advice
to disadvantaged families;
he gives them vegetables
from his garden.
He is an American Idol.

She does not believe
that most poor people
are that way because of something they did
or failed to do.
She helps when she can.
She is an American Idol.

You don’t have to sing and dance,
to be an American Idol.