If I may I would like put the inaugural euphoria for President Obama on pause for a moment. I don’t wish to interrupt the celebration, postpone the jubilation or even diminish the historical significance of the occasion. But there are some of us who remain skeptical about the 44th President. What is hope and change going to look like? Will we be better off in four years time? Will the President stumble through the challenges facing this nation the same way he stumbled while taking the oath of office? The following is a poem about what America might look like in a thousand days: