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A mountain of a man was he,
Conqueror of Sisyphus’s failures;
Leading all eyes focused on the top
With echoing bells of freedom
Ringing-out over the hills and valleys
Of peace, love and due justice.
Though the King he was—yet—he
Lived and died the humble servant
Of the living God of healing mercy.
With mission-purpose accomplished,
He ascended the eternal mountain
To that house not made by hands—
Leaving us—with the eternal hope
Of our eyes’ coming liberation prize
As he revealed it was coming—though
not in his lifetime nor before tortuous
times yet before us—for God promised.
Yes, in the spirit of Jesus, he assured us
That the dream will become a living vision
And the living vision will become a total reality.
He assured us that God is a God of deliverance
And has indeed promised us our rightful place
In Earth’s Promised Land and that despite any
Pandora Box-like pandemonium to come, God
Remains in charge and will eventually send the
Sun and Moon of his love with bright tomorrows.
Thus, in these present victimizing dark times of
Catastrophic and calamitous uncertainty—as we
Commemorate Martin Luther King Jr. Day in 2021—
Let our hearts, minds, souls, and spirits be fired up
By the fueling words he poured out to us over nearly
A century and a half ago—(1963)—and still remain
As igniting today as they were so many moons ago:
“God…gives[s] us the interior resources to
Face the storms and problems of life…Let this
affirmation be our ringing cry. It will give us
courage to face the uncertainties of the future.
It will give our tired feet new strength as we
continue our forward stride towards the city
of freedom.
When our days become dreary with
low-hovering clouds and our nights become
darker than a thousand midnights, let us
remember that there is a great benign Power
in the universe whose name is God, and he is
able to make a way out of no way, and trans-
form dark yesterdays into bright tomorrows.”
As we commemorate the Day of our modern-day
Prophet, Martin Luther King Jr., may his spirit be
The wind in the sail of our precious tinder life raft
In the present-day rough and turbulent sea of life;
That we may—in Peace, Love and Truth—reach our
Redemptive shores and ascend beyond Sisyphus-like
Efforts to that mountain top where we all shall live
In peace, love, and the equality that should rein in
A world of the children of the one blood of our God.
~Peace and Love, M’Lowe
Martin Luther King Jr., Day
01/18/2021
©01/17/2021
