Tell them about the dream ! *

' Tell them about the dream, Martin!'
Mahalia Jackson once for thou cried
And thou standing there with thy dream
Said how good it is always to be free
To fly like a bird out of oppression
How thou stood up to end slavery,

Taking that bus from Montgomery
Thou took to road following the light
And how people sang for thee, merry,
For thou hath shone out of dark, bright,

As bright perhaps shines the coal
Having the fuel in it all days of summer
Having diamond also in its soul
How thou hath broken chains at Alabama

And gone beyond guns and carnage
And beyond Vietnam too,
Finding calm in meaningless rage
You!  having a dream of gold and blue.

(*Written  as a tribute to Martin Luther king Jr. on his birth anniversary )