Mr President
You said that we were safe within these walls that we call home.
No matter if the world should end, I was not alone.
Voted into office with a promise sure to keep,
I could walk with pride down a dark and lonely street.
You said that you could handle whatever came your way,
Our nation was united, or so you liked to say.
I watched in horror all last week as the end for some did come,
Thousands were abandoned with nothing being done.
Our homeless and our elderly our children bore the shame,
While those in office passed the buck, and played the Blaming game.
Grateful I still have a job, and a family left in tack,
I donate everything I can... The shirt right off my back.
Some may call it social cleansing or Mother Nature's will,
I call it deplorable, the magnitude unknown still.
You have let us down and this time it can't be fixed,
All of us are mad; finally, the polls they are not mixed.
United we will stand again...Even in New Orleans,
All I ask from you today...Mr. President Please don't speak for me.
Copyright © Stacy Fair | Year Posted 2005
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