America on the Brink

Gone are the days
of wine and honey
of little work
and easy money,
abundant cheap oil
and lots of good soil.

Exacerbating the problem,
all our people's toil
can't match the low wages
and advanced stages
of Asia's industrialization,
causing unemployment
in our outsourcing nation,
complicated by a power elite
seducted by corruption
with crooked bankers
and Wall Street cancers.

Thus, one can easily see
a growing catastrophe,
with increased chances
for more regression
than any advances.

There is some hope
a new administration
led by this chap Obama
can help our nation
to save us from all this
but frankly speaking,
even gods may be unable
to restore our former bliss.

Alfred Charasz
Copyright 2009 Alfred Charasz