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 I had a dream too, Martin Luther King Jr.

your dream came true

& people looked inside of me

not at the shape or size of me

not at the color or style of me

they looked at my inner reality

not the outside fantasy

I dreamt your dream came true…Mr. King

Marcus Garvey wasn’t ridiculed & called a fool

Ruby Bridges walked to school alone

Malcolm wasn’t murdered by his own

Miss Rosa enjoyed her bus ride home

Emmitt Till was alive today

Medgar Evers wasn’t murdered in his driveway

Steve Biko lived to write another day

Tupac represented the best of us

Rodney King wasn’t beaten alive in front of us

&

Marvin was asking me “What’s goin’ on?”

I dreamt that your dream came true Rev. King

& young adults today were livin’ clean

not smokin’ tobacco, cronic, droppin’ pills, hittin’ crack

downin’ 40’s & gettin’ wacked

dreaming stupid dreams

nothing to do but get hi & lie…or so it seems

living nightmares shooting down tomorrow’s dreams

I dreamt your dream came true Minister King

& in concrete jungles everywhere

sons and daughters of criminals and righteous folks

were sitting at a table together

learning & teaching one another to read & to LOVE

I was dreaming and your dream came true Teacher King

& all children attended equally integrated schools

where students were not judged by the color of skin

or the color of Nike, Dickie’s, Akademik’s

but by the work they handed in on time

to teachers who really cared

I had a dream that your dream came true Brother King & in my dreams

I saw boys and girls of all races joining hands in agape love

little children holding hands of baby daddies

baby daddies married to & taking care of baby mommies

& they both had good jobs, careers, and businesses.

I dreamt your dream came true Mr. King &

I heard that same freedom bell ring

in every town from Africa to America,

Europe to Asia, South America to the Caribbean

starving children came running to dinner tables

filled with pesticide-free fruits & vegetables

BROWN rice, sugar, bread and molasses,

UN-contaminated water

& hormone free well-seasoned chicken

I dreamt that TV showed real people living true reality

& “FRIENDS”…didn’t all look the same

Disney wasn’t another name for distorted history & modern mythology

I dreamt that Eddie, Martin, Will* & the Wayan’s

produced black history biographies & multicultural realities

Black & whites & all “others” UNITED in mutual funds

not only for sex, drugs & guns

I had a dream too, that your dream came true Brother King

& two weeks after your vision in DC

four little girls in Birmingham, Alabama.

Addie Mae Collins, Denise Mc Nair, Cynthia Wesley & Carole Robertson

walked home from church to waiting mommies

& the next day they went to a shiny new school

with smiling & loving classmates

each one of those little girls graduated college

becoming a doctor to heal us

A teacher to teach us, a lawyer for justice

& President of Human Rights University

Your dream came true Martin Luther King, Jr.

Because in my dream, their you were…

home with Mrs. King & your children,

playin’ with grandchildren

inside the not so-white house

being the PRESIDENT of the United States of LOVE

So brave…so intelligent…so blessed

relaxing with your family & friends

& everybody knew…without a doubt

they were “FREE AT LAST!”

& truly somebody.

Just like I do, thanks to you

Martin Luther King Jr.,

I dreamt your dream, came true.

(C) 1999 I Dreamt, Martin Luther King, Jr. - Oni Lasana, Real Tales of Rhymes and Reasons 

(SR) 2005 I Dreamt, MLK Jr. - Words by Oni Lasana - Music by Samori Coles

Available on CD Baby & on all digital music platforms.