A change gonna come (Letter to Dr. King)

This day forty-three years ago Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated.  He still lives on through print and video media, no matter what your race is we can all learn something from his teachings.  Tonight’s poem is dedicated to the memory of Dr. King


Since you’ve been gone we’ve made many strides towards your dream

Yet it still seems like we’re many miles away

The amount of violence that happens on streets that bare your name is at an all time high

A man that stood for such peace and if you take a camera cursing down the boulevard it resembles a third world country

False prophets come saying they want to carry on your legacy but they aren’t even fit to carry an autobiography in your name

Nonviolent Nonviolent

Yet looking at my brothers and sisters I wonder why we never seem to help each other

Instead we’re more concerned about who’s wearing what designer and who has what in their pockets

Smiling in someone’s face that you claim is like family to you but tearing them down as soon as they get out of ear shot

Life is already a long bloody fight to the finish now we have to worry about people from our own side stabbing us in the back

See someone laying there instead of helping them up we laugh as they try to regain balance

Uplift

The dream is still ours to have

All we have to do is believe and we will soon achieve



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