American Family Poem by Tim Rawson

Another family down the road went broke today
Took their home and their American way
Lost their farm and lost their land
Lost everything that used to make life grand

Thirty years on the job and nothing to show
What all is gone they'll never know
Wall Street crashed, caused by greed
The rich took their life and their mortgage deed

The quest for their young to go to school
All the dreams of a swimming pool
The descent life now a memory
The way they feel they're the enemy

So much for the American Dream
So much more to make them scream
Whats next? ...Whats coming our way?
How many more families have got to pay?

No jobs within a thousand miles
This family rides off not a reason to smile
Here you go wall street you can have it all
We're American strong, we stand American tall