Thursday, January 27, 2022

John R. Lewis Bridge

RANDOM JACK POETRY HOUR: GEORGE FLOYD/CIVIL RIGHTS SERIES

 

John R. Lewis Bridge

 

MLK marched on Washington

To assert the rights of all human beings

To live in relative peace and freedom

To buy homes in decent neighborhoods

To receive a quality education

To seek justice in a court of law

To expect decency from law enforcement

To vote in fair elections

 

John R. Lewis marched alongside MLK

Across the Edmund Pettis Bridge

To demonstrate his courage and resolve

They marched on in silence

As dozens of cops with clubs drawn

Stormed the marchers

Beating them down like animals

Trying to end the civil rights movement

Once and for always

 

Until the Edmund Pettis Bridge

Is dismantled piece by piece

Replaced with the John R. Lewis Bridge

We will not be home

We will not be free

Until every last vestige of white supremacy

Is uprooted from blood-stained soil

The cause will not be done

Indeed we will only have begun

 


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