Martin Luther King's Dream - Revisited Poem by Cheryl Lynn Moyer Peele

Martin Luther King's Dream - Revisited

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It is nobody's fault
you're poor, black, hispanic or dead
of an Islam bullet
centuries from home.

It is terrorism
that prevented your education or
denied you your constitutional rights
of a democracy, running scared
of it's individual privileges
to disagree.

It is American
to stand up, fight back,
to speak out, against injustice
for the poorest, most ignorant,
unworthy, or disabled
amongst us.

Turn your back once,
and the privilege is revoked
for each of us to claim
'Am I not a man? '
Worthy of the dignity of life,
of inherent liberties.

Now that the disenfranchised
have become the majority,
how must our 'dreams deferred'
explode?

COMMENTS OF THE POEM
Faraz Ahmed Memon 27 February 2009

You poem have become reality in the shape of Obama... nice

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James B. Earley 21 March 2008

There is yet much work to do! Thanks for sharing your view.........

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Chris Mendros 03 February 2008

thoughtful tribute to a man who saw America as a work forever in progress.

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Love Poetry Hate Racism 07 November 2007

It is American to stand up, fight back, to speak out, against injustice for the poorest, most ignorant, unworthy, or disabled amongst us. are you talking about iraq, and other countries that America has colonized, reduced them to rubble internally and externally... martin luther kings legacy has gone to the dogs...and racism is much stronger and more rabid now tha it was in his time..

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