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17 minutes

Makayla Bush






for 17 minutes

you shared your dream

your dream would be heard

miles farther than where you shared it

you wanted change for the next generations

you wanted your dream to be a reality





17 minutes, a few generations later

i watched you share your dream

i look at where we are now

i see we have not fully made your dream a reality

though i can join hands with white girl and white boys

we are Still judged for the Color of our skin

we are not able to say “free at last, free at last”

because we are not fully free

yet…


even though you can not see your dream in the flesh

you can see it emerge from the heavens above

we think about your dream and we have made it our dream

to be

“Free at Last”


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