For Dr Martin Luther King Jr

For Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. You had a dream of pastures of peace where children of all hues mingled like rainbows they silenced you, but your voice resounds now in those pastures not yet of peace and your dream is still a dream the dream you dreamt while others slept you said that you’d been to the mountain-top and they silenced your voice just then before your eyes saw that promised land of pastures of peace where children of all hues mingle like rainbows now your vision is glimpsed in some pastures not yet of peace and yes, they silenced your voice but your spirit their bullets could never tear apart your spirit, like your dream is mingled with the wind in all those pastures not yet of peace and until we give life to your dream those pasture of peace where children of all hues mingle like rainbows shall remain simply your dream so as we remember you today and pledge that those pastures of peace are nourished first in each of us for only then will your dream will take root and blossom into our shared dream and the view from the mountain-top, radiant and bright and full of hope shall seem where children of all hues mingle like rainbows