“I have a dream…”

“I have a dream…”
But what happened to it
A dream so full of passion and promise
Now fills our nations prisons
Brother killing brother
A white master in the form of a rock
A glass pipe beats down the great dream
And a great mans words become
As lost as the people who celebrate it

The man who said “Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst
for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred.
We must forever conduct our struggle on the high plane of dignity and discipline.”
Did he die in vane or was he spared the sorrow
Of watching, his people become anointed in
Self oppression
Bitterness
Violence

Had he been alive to see the horror
Of what his people have become
And how his dream has been used
Used by opportunists looking to
Hold high the shield of civil rights
For the favors of the camera and fame
He would have probably shot himself

~Arnold Bailey (Celebrate his life through actions – not good intentions)

Quotes from:
Martin Luther King, Jr.
“I Have a Dream”
delivered 28 August 1963, at the Lincoln Memorial, Washington D.C.

http://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/mlkihaveadream.htm