Notes About The Poem
This poem supports the notion that education should be available for all and that learners should not fall into debt servitude.

The Country Scholar's Bond for Student Debtors in the USA

They promised that the debt would fade away
So students took the path they thought was right,
To study and find our scholastic way,
To keep our country's future burning bright.

Americans with good minds, sharp and free,
Where cowboys read of heroes in their books,
Cowgirls build homes for all to see,
Beyond the vanity of shallow looks.

But college dreams have turned to heavy lead,
All races and ethnicities in deep.
The interest grows while workers lose their bread.
The promises the lenders didn't keep.

From Texas plains to Floridian sun,
The SAVE plan starts the freedom we should've won.
Copyright © | Year Posted 2026

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