Martin Luther King Jr.
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Our skin is not as white as snow
Does this make us worthless?
A lot of us grew up in single parent homes
Does this make us inadequate?
We commit the same crimes
But why do we only get the life sentences?
In China, hospitals skip the fourth
and the fourteenth floor
because four in Mandarin Chinese
iss hi,
the same pronunciation
as the word for death.
I am an African, an African
taken from my homeland and
brought into a place where I am known as
being "inferior" Why was this happening?
Do I not shed blood and cry as any other
BOOM!
Goes the sound of a bus backfiring
As it leaves a stop with no passengers
Once again
The bus driver silently laments to himself
And hopes the boycott will be over.
They shuffle up the stairs
In a line like prisoners
Their heads hung low
As they walk in a single row.
“To the back of the bus,” he says.
But they already know,
Bloodshed, yelling and screaming in a world in which I took my stance
All I got was an undesirable glance
I didn't apologize for the need for equality
So I proceeded in my seat in a world shaken without harmony
Abraham Lincoln was the author of the Emancipation Proclamation and the 16th president of the United States
Martin Luther King Jr was an inspiration and the leader of the civil rights movement
Martin Luther King Junior had a dream
For all people to be treated fair
In order to rid the world of despair
It was a part of the grander scheme
To fill the world with utter esteem
Roses are Red Violets are blue Martain Luther King lead a march on Washington and changed civil rights forever and so can you.
Behold an August day
a flock of black ravens
flew their way
to freedom.
What else is in the air?
A flock of white falcons
flying in pairs
with the ravens.
Words, just words a man speaks,
but they cradle me in wonder.
Maybe if I wait a little longer
and I march a little stronger
