Not Just a Dream – v2

From the snowy hills of New Hampshire

not as snowy this year, but still not just a dream,

this birthday, this holiday, celebrating

this time, this day, this year,

the words of the preacher,

the world now right side up

A step on the journey, clear, discernible,

a President, a man of hope, of change

of color, a moment, Martin smiling;

a new generation, a new time, this time,

not just a dream, a world, forever transformed

where hope won out over fear

whose tomorrow rose up out of yesterday

Shaking the dust off their feet, the shackles

forever cast off, the tide of history

on the side of right, of peace

of justice, in God’s time;

a new day in this land

a new hope for our people

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January 21, 2013

Martin Luther King, Jr. Day

and his final speech before his assassination

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oehry1JC9Rk&feature=youtu.be

and Inauguration of the President

Barack Hussein Obama

&

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2009/01/not-just-dream-reality.html

&

several poems written in 2009

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/search/label/Martin%20Luther%20King

on the juxtaposition of the

80^th birthday of Martin Luther King, Jr.

and the inauguration of Barack Obama

as President of the United States of America

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