Martin
In a nation of happy faces,
Your children of rainbowed skin
Hold hands, as kin,
Now ignorant of races...
Just as you hoped...
Building walls of love
Brothers and sisters come along
Singing a never ending song
That you and I are apart of...
Just as I wished...
Voices melting, together singing
Form a circle with hands linked
Alas, just after I had blinked,
I see their wall is rising...
Just as we dreamed.
[For Martin Luther King, Jr.]
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