January 16, MLK Day
He had a dream: equality,
A dream for all of humanity,
All human beings on the Earth,
Brothers and sisters of equal worth.
Is everyone a child of God?
All human beings, peas in a pod?
It’s proven by biology
And attested by democracy.
Murdered because of his belief,
His death should have caused nationwide grief,
Not rising white supremacy,
And a movement toward autocracy.
Now Martin Luther King is gone,
His dream left to us to carry on.
The journey will be hard, we know;
We still have a long, long way to go.