Sense Sonnet - Acher

In Dr. King's Day

Black America was so long
A blur kept in time and place
By white America. This wrong
Of giving one's rights based on race
At last focused in on one man,
Who gave a face to civil rights,
Who gave a dream for all time span,
Who brought together blacks and whites.
Doing his life work, Dr. King
Was loved and hated, praised and killed.
But a nation began changing.
His dream is still being fulfilled.

Martin Luther King, Jr. Day,
Reminder of a long, hard way.