the weight of this moment

a burden unanswered

the truth before us

calling us to vision

to seeing more clearly

the divide remaining

the haves and have nots

the work yet unfinished

the Dream unfulfilled

so many hungry

so many without promise

no jobs, no life, no hope

a burden remaining

weighing on our hearts

August 28, 2013

speech of President Obama

http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2013/08/28/remarks-president-let-freedom-ring-ceremony-commemorating-50th-anniversa

http://www.kbtx.com/home/headlines/Full-Text-Video-of-I-Have-a-Dream-Speech-50-Years-Later-221466841.html

at 50^th anniversary of

the “I Have A Dream” speech

http://www.archives.gov/press/exhibits/dream-speech.pdf

by the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

8/28/1963

&

earlier poems

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

Invocation

by Myrlie Evers-Williams

http://bcove.me/ugv9l9qy

Inaugural Address

http://www.politico.com/story/2013/01/president-barack-obamas-2013-inaugural-address-full-text-86497.html

&

quote in the speech, “"Our journey is not complete until our

gay brothers and sisters are treated like anyone else under the law"”

https://twitter.com/whitehouse/status/293404632171048962/photo/1

&

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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