Words for Wednesday: The Recession and the Future

It's been a while since I've done a Words for Wednesday, but this week's words inspired me, and also I can not often resist a rhyming challenge.

'Words for Wednesday' is a writing prompt held by Delores at Under the Porch Light.
Use some or all of the week's words, write a poem or a story or part of a story, and visit Delores' current week's prompt to let her know you've joined in.

This week there were two lists; I chose the rhyming one:

trepidation

stagnation

depreciation

domination

acclimatization

corroboration 

Here is my effort:

The Recession and the Future

The GFC caused wide stagnation

Unemployment, depreciation

The end of the US domination

Of economic occupation

Now things are getting better, slowly

So they say, though here in lowly

Mortal world it doesn’t seem so

Money’s tight and jobs are more so

We read the news with trepidation

Stories lend corroboration

To fears and predeterminations

Nothing seems in moderation

Is it a question of familiarisation?

What’s the secret of acclimatization

To economic deprivation

And social want and dislocation?

We hope for better, kinder days

A future mapped in better ways

We wait and wonder what will follow

When today becomes tomorrow.