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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