Honoring Martin Luther King's Birthday

YET, I DREAM

 

I dream of kings and queens

Of far away kingdoms,

From days of old,

With corn-rowed tresses

And ebony faces.

 

I dream of my forefathers,

Chained and shackled,

Brought to a distant land,

A home forever,

The motherland to see no more.

 

Bought and sold,

Their labors utilized

In the forging of a new nation

Called America---The Home of the Brave

And the Land of the Free.

 

I dream of Benjamin Banneker,

Crispus Attucks, Nat Turner, Den Mark Vessey,

Frederick Douglass, Booker T. Washington,

W.E.B. Dubois, Jean Baptiste DuSable,

George Washington Carver, Carter G. Woodson,

Thurgood Marshall, Dr. Martin Luther King...

 

I dream of Harriet Tubman,

Sojourner Truth, Mary McLeod Bethune,

Phillis Wheatly, Madame C.J. Walker,

Ida B. Wells, Mahalia Jackson,

Marian Anderson, Marjorie Stewart Joyner...

And other sisters and brothers

Who lit and carried the torch,

Then left it----That we might see the way.

 

I dream! I dream! I dream!

Yes, Yet I dream!

(C) 1995 A.D. Moore

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