A poem a day for 2013 - day 239 - We. Now. Fifty. Years. Later.

Fifty years
A celebration
Time passed
Time passing
Let it rain
Umbrellas up
Pour rain pour
Cameras
Phones
Martin Luther King, Jr.
A day like today
Five decades ago today
Barack Obama
A promise made
Truths
Self evident truths
Equality
Let
Feedom
Ring

Life
Pursuit of happiness
Happiness
Happiness
After emancipation
Emancipation
Slavery
Freedom ring
Freedom ring

Breaking news
The dream lives on
His dream
Hers
Our dream lives on
Our dream longs on
Still
Wanting
Fighting
Freedom

Black people
Brown
White

We remember
We remember
Booming voice
Ringing voice
Thunder voice
Power
Prophetic voice

We remember
We remember

Ordinary
Celebrity
One people

We remember
We remember

We know injustice
Inequality
War
Death

Fifty years gone by
Years of prayer
Of faith
Of fight
Of nonviolence
Of peace
Of freedom
Of song
Of knowing
Of God

Freedom ring
Freedom ring

Freedom persistant
Freedom young
Freedom old

Thirty four years old
Brother Martin
Boy Martin
Man Martin
Father Martin
Husband Martin
Southern Martin
Black Martin
Live Martin
March Martin

Voting rights
Opportunity
Stand
Colors
Change

Yes. We. Can.

Fifty years
Fifty years
Change
Fifty years change

Marriage
Victories
Laws
March
Mothers
Fathers
We owe
We owe

We are thankful
We are grateful
For patience
For liberation
For knowing that there is so much work to do
We are thankful for progress
Thankful for courage
Thankful for those before
Thankful for yesterday

We will honor our befores
Ancestors
Healers
Voters
Fighters

Our history
Our freedom
Our pride
Our challenge

Happiness
Happiness
Dream
Forward

I will forward
I will stand
I will dream
I will fight
I will peace

Speak, President, speak
Family, Obama, family
Tell, Barack, tell

We, people, we
One, we, one

Fifty years, fifty