Man of Honor
Man of
honor
Man of
dignity
He
overcame the weight of history
To become
the conscience of the people’s house
They beat
him down on the Edmund Pettus Bridge
They beat
him back on the bus to freedom
He spilled
his blood on the long march
to the
promised land
Yet he
never lost hope
He carried
more than his share
of his
generation’s burden
Yet he
always believed he would get there
He marched
with King
Stood
beside Jesse Jackson
and prayed
with Reverend Al
He broke
bread with adversaries
and
converted many to friends
It is
tempting to believe
it is all
for nothing
John Lewis
was always there
to remind
us where we’ve been
and
remember how far we have come
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