I have refrained from posting political messages here, so I hope you allow this one. I was lucky to draw the Martin Luther King weekend for my first 2016 post. I wrote this poem in 2011, have read it on NPR and at many local forums. I want to share it with all the Roses and our readers.
STONE
OF HOPE, 2011
Granite
statue gazes outward,
seeks
proof the dream
continues
I have a dream
looks
for footprints
on
the path to freedom
that one day on the red hills of Georgia
laments
ridicule of a president
with
the audacity to dream
the sons of former
slaves
sees
a country
broken
by religious hatred
and the sons of former slave owners
hears
uncivil discord not
peaceful
civil disobedience
will be able to sit down together
wonders
what happened
to
embracing differences
at the table of
brotherhood.
abandons
hope of government
for
all people.
I had a dream.
Granite
statue gazes outward and weeps.
