This day I remember....

As a people, as catalysts for change each in our own way, today marks an anniversary riddle with emotions on both sides of the divide. For those of us that take it lightly for struggle is not our way...think and think again...for yesterday's sacrifce is today's reluctance to truly recognize the power of a people...

As a tribute to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., I penned these thoughts this day titled "For King":

I am a man
As any other
Born in divine's grace
Equal to one as one to another

Forty long years have echoed one bullet
Still one constitutional interpretation
Yet over and over again
I fight still for an entitled right
As I too--am a man

A man grateful for the dream
Where courage resonated
And indifference and hate
Not tolerated

Almost half a century
Still laden with forefathers blood
I remember this day
As a continued evolution of change
A change not for me
But for my legacy
As he too will become a man

I am a man
As any other
Born in divine's grace
Equal to one as one to another