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    • CommentAuthorTom Zart
    • CommentTimeJan 19th 2009
     
    OBAMA & MARTIN LUTHER KING JR.

    OBAMA’S INAUGURATION DAY POEMS


    FELLOW AMERICANS


    Will we battle terrorism as it should be fought
    Or run away and let evil doers chase us to our door?
    Will we protect our freedom and system of life
    As our fathers and grandfathers sacrificed before?

    Will we secure our borders against illegal entry
    Or let our economy and security be destroyed?
    Will we finally stop runaway wasteful spending
    By leaders who are self-serving and void?

    Will we continue to pledge our help to the less fortunate
    Who suffer from war, hunger and disease?
    Will we preserve our heritage and our future
    From those who wish to bring liberty to its knees?

    Never be afraid to be proud of America
    And march with the thankful, honorable and just.
    Never surrender our freedom of choice
    Standing firm for what we believe and trust.

    Sometimes it’s hard to protect what is right
    Sometimes we’re scorned as for others we fight.
    Some of us are willing regardless of loss
    To commit our soul to save the cross.

    Evil prospers on greed and human hate
    Always eager to destroy and defecate.
    God’s grace descends on the souls of man
    Cleansing the impure wherever He can.

    As long as man has struggled on earth
    Life has had its troubles from birth.
    God’s seed of goodness has delayed man’s demise
    Thank Heaven for his heroes the strong and the wise.

    The Lord adores his heroes of yesterday
    Just how numerous, only He could say.
    God loves his soldiers who line up to serve
    By standing against evil His grace they deserve.

    God Bless America




    MARTIN LUTHER KING JR.


    Reverend King, one of the most influential black leaders
    To ever march for civil rights and justice
    Was born to a minister and a teacher of school.
    Educated to where he earned his P.H.D.
    Becoming a pastor marching against what was unfair and cruel.

    Leading a boycott to protest bus segregation
    He gained national prominence in 1955 and 56.
    As he preached and marched for freedom for all
    He was jailed, threatened, spat on and beaten
    As for peaceful demonstration he would call.

    Marching to Washington, D.C. In 1963
    He was one of the leaders of faith
    Voicing concern for the plight of the poor.
    Soon there after, he was killed by a sniper
    In Memphis, supporting workers rights and more.

    King dedicated one of his books to his children
    Praising God and praying for mankind’s future
    With words for all to prayerfully remember.
    To be judged, not by color, but by character
    Shunning violence never to surrender.

    Dr. King will be remembered down through history
    As a man whose mission in life was the enrichment of others.
    “A Soldier For The Lord” with goodness of heart
    Risking everything for man’s freedom and equality.
    From his legacy of self-sacrifice we must refuse to part.


    SLAVERY


    When you chain the neck of a slave
    The other end fastens to you.
    Your heart and soul become corrupt
    And all which is evil you’ll do.

    No government shall exist for ever
    Who's people are not really free.
    Though around the world there are those
    Who stay blind to how life should be.

    Any who must enslave others
    Will dwell in their own living hell
    After death, they’ll join their master
    In that place from heaven he fell.

    But till then we’ll fight and resist
    Making them put their chains away
    And those of us who may die first
    From heaven shall watch and pray.


    By President’s Poet
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