"Killers of the Dream"

Killers of the Dream (annotated version) By Dr. Emily Grant DeCarlo (copyright 2013) At the risk of seeming critical, Got something to say that’s real and empirical! Something that I’ve witnessed That threatens to overshadow a miracle: The phenomenon of a hero Who walked among us/ Lived and died to set us free. A bulwark of a man who dared Challenge strange fruit hanging from a tree. All just so incredulous to me: How this man like Moses led his people Yet these descendants, Partakers of the vision and the dream So blind they cannot see Crystal blue waters of freedom No longer flowing pure and clean, Contaminated by minds too Delirious to see They are killers of the dream, A threat to democracy! If one mind is imprisoned Hence, the domino effect: Nobody can be free. We are all connected In this nightmare If somebody doesn’t wake up, We’ll all be drowned by the turbulence In a dark and angry sea, Where brothers and sisters are calling each other “niggers” Instead of forgiveness, rage is flowing Like blood infested rivers In spite of reason, Drug riddled thinking is pulling triggers Mothers stooped over lifeless bodies, Crying “Mercy Me!” No longer keepers of the light Sucked down into the Hazy cesspool of the night/ Denying the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King. Sentenced to self- inflicted insanity Guilty of being killers of the dream!