Nation huddled in darkness
As a leader emerged
Promising a “New Deal”
Recovery from the Great Depression
Our thirty-second president
Wise, compassionate
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Beacon of hope for families
Warm Spring’s historic train, now rusty
Once carried people with polio
Visitors to FDR’s Little White House
Hoping tepid water would ease their plight
Touring the White House museum,
You can see the bed where he died
Beloved president of 12 years
During the harshest of times
Hungry and homeless Americans
Overcame the Great Depression
Only to enter a second World War
Upon the bombing of Pearl Harbor
His comprehensive programs
propelled a struggling nation to rebound
Created infrastructure jobs
Taught people new skills
Elected four times
Roosevelt was a born leader
With the problems we have today
We pray a new leader will show us the way
*January 16, 2021
For L. Milton Hankins’ “Your Favorite President” contest
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