Dear America may I please borrow a few minutes of your time

There are some questions I need answered and things I must say to clear my mind

Why is it that since Osama sent the planes through the towers

We as a nation has struggled to maintain the top spot amongst the other world powers

Why are the jobs disappearing quicker than water vapors

And the number of companies outsourcing steadily getting greater

Why is the cost of living at an all time high

Leaving most of America with shallow pockets, struggling to get by

Tell me why the government is denying a potential recession

But the stock market and the value of our dollar imply a certain regression

Someone tell me how we have the funds to be at war in someone else’s backyard

When the need to assist our own problems such as poverty we totally disregard

What was the significance of this so called Bailout Plan

The giants are helped out and you know who’s left out in the cold, the little man

We have the nerve to constantly preach education

But it’s hard with rising tuition all across the nation

And the kids, why do they skip school

Maybe they think it’s cool; outsmarting themselves not knowing they are the fool.

Why is it that so many kids don’t want to make themselves or their family proud

Instead they get caught up in the streets, breaking the law following the wrong crowd

Tell me how many of us can remember hundreds of rap quotes

But can’t recite a sentence from a speech that Malcolm or MLK wrote

That’s why we as a nation aren’t passing knowledge to one another

Instead it’s bullets and knives that pierce our bodies and leave us dead under a cover

With another life cut short and one more grieving mother

Most of America is ignorant to financial independence

We would rather put a down payment for a car instead of using the money for toward a mortgage to become a home resident

We tend to live for the day when tomorrow is a possibility

Then we wonder why we are burdened with economic futility

These are just a few issues that we as a nation must address

If we expect to collectively be at our very best

There is hope and I have faith that after all is said and done

We will rise above it all like the morning sun