Ode To Abraham Lincoln
and Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
by Leslie LaVerne Bridges-Kemp
�2002





His yoke is easy and his burden is light.
Reverencing the dawn we whisper in delight
to the darkie demons despoiling grace in the night
of slavery�s reign overcome in the dawn of might.

Overwhelmingly appreciative of the dispensation of grace
which has delivered me on chariots of emerald embrace
into a Renaissance of memosa-orange to replace
the midnight hues of ebony denigration in innocence�s face.

Civil War and Civil Rights Movement transform and transport
your charge to the crest of a tidal wave of deifying momentum,
as daintily the angels signal in silence the Captain�s report
of longitude serenity and latitude eternity
sailing towards ad infinitum.
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