Monthly Poem "February"

THE DREAM

Black, Indian, Biracial, White,

coming together in a dream of the night.

Has the dream become reality yet,

or are stereotypes still set?

Has the dream become permanent

or will color stay a determinant?

The dream is alive and awake

ready to love and give without take.

We are one nation indivisible;

we are a diverse nation that is miscible.

United we stand in hand

no matter what shade or color of skin

can truly define what lies within.

The start of the struggle is in the beginning

through the Middle Passage horrors to beatings and killings.

Then Civil War shed blood of brothers

so that Blacks were no longer “the others.”

The racial unfairness still continues

with unmentioned fighting issues.

The fight for freedom, the fight for truth

the fight to eliminate stereotypes in youth.

Martin Luther King’s dream presented the fissures

in our society which must resolve in parity America’s hope

for more freedom and equality

where ALL men  stand in sodality.

The America of integrations

not the America of Malcolm X’s segregation.

The dream is alive in man today

even though some people begin to stray,

everyone believes in progress and hope

that together we can climb the slippery slope

of struggle for equality; freedom with no separations

due to gender, class, or race and no partitions.

This is the struggle all humans face.

We have overcome many conflicts

in hopes of racial intermix.

All thanks to a dream

a dream of one man, to promote justice and equality throughout the land

the dream that Blacks and Whites will stand

strong and steady together in the land of hope, success, and progress

instead of the land of desolation for the suppressed.

The country that is united and diverse

the land we call “best in the universe.”