A Poem For The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

Damn, J. Edgar Hoover!

With all of the shenanigans

That he concocted to maneuver

The ruination of your legacy

Which comes as no surprise

That a man like him would

EVER be the recipient of

A Nobel Peace Prize!

Or any other humanitarian

Commendation

While he was living or

Ever to be Posthumously

Bestowed.

Because you see  J. Edgar Hoover

was trying

To keep it Jim Crow.

By exterminating our leaders

and their character

By way of schemes

That he plotted through

His parochial eyes.

Then you have Ignorant and

jealous folk running around

talking about a wire tap

Damn, that I don’t give a crap!

But I digress, because this poem

Is not about a small

minded hateful freak!

This poem is dedicated to a man

Who stood up for us all and took body

shots and turned the other cheek!

A man that gave his life so that

We could run and not have to keep

Crawling.

A man who was tired of the wheels of justice

Continuously stalling!

A man that rose up from out of the south

Who fought for freedom with every word from his mouth.

A man that caused millions of people from all over the world 

to come together and honor him with a National Holiday

A man that brought Stevie Wonder to tears as he

dedicated his beautiful song Happy Birthday!

A man that we lovingly celebrate each January with all our hearts.