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SIMSBURY, CONNECTICUT (Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.)
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JOURNAL #39
it was
from a valley
his great vision was born
the mentioned promised land
he had seen
was so very earthly real
his beloved dream
sculpted from scraps
of a chance reality
promised in youth
as it were
firmly transplanted
in the mindset of
a more tolerant
set of people
an unexpected leadership
elected from a vote
of his bright, hopeful peers
true greatness of spirit
lends itself to humility
goodness does not need
to be introduced
it is just there
in the set of the brow
the clearness of the eyes
the emotional timber of the
purposeful and the earnest
rumbling voice
he was a lamb of a lamb
so carefully selected
by one far greater than him
and sent out into this world
to be helpful to the collective
and likely just as helpless
to self
he ever always stood
in the angry sunlight of
danger
when he was not preaching from
a pulpit of shadows
Americans I pray will die
and live to be born again
remembering this firm
believer of men
as the one who lead the
brutally oppressed
out of the graves of their
stepped on dignity
and into the light of full acceptance
they each deserve
and now a memorial is being
lovingly built
for the heart that lives in that house
on that finely mentioned hill
a man who was a man but far more
than a man
a doctor
a reverend
a leader
a son
a husband
a dad
a man I cannot insult
by my ever forgetting him
and all he's done
to set a spiritual blaze
the uglier side of ideas
when it comes to
what should be
The God Given Equality
to every living man....................
(Jan. 18, 2011 531am)
