February 23, 2016

"Amid the Marching"


“Amid the Marching”

cji
2/23/16

Month day and year
August 28, 1963
Washington DC
black and white
arm in arm as one
and my young friend
a Southern girl
only 16 at the time
amid the marching
when asked why
‘right place-right time’
‘the right thing to do’
meeting her yesterday
now almost 70 years
still the same truth
right place-right time
the right thing to do
how many remember
MLK uniting the many
not as today separation
but arm in arm as one
August 28, 1963
month day and year!


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