Inauguration Day Impressions

What are your thoughts about the meaning of the Presidential Inauguration event this year?

“Our lives begin to end when we become silent about things that matter.” (Dr. Martin Luther King)

On March 31,1968, Dr. Martin Luther King delivered his famous speech, “Remaining Awake Through a Great Revolution” at the National Cathedral In Washington D.C. He made prophetic references then to the legend of Rip Van Winkle, who went into a long sleep of twenty years to grow old and thus missed out on so much of what might have made his life meaningful.

Such thoughts inspired me to write an original poem which explores the perplexing contradiction of celebrating D. Trump’s  Presidential inauguration and “MLK” holiday on the same day this year. 

 

INAUGURATION DAY IMPRESSIONS

 

Like Sleeping Our Life Away 

 

As Winkle Turned Olden Gray

 

His Prophecy Once Foretold Our Fate        
                             

As Dulled Minds Took Stage Show Bait

 

Where Privileged Few Took Power

 

While Masses Lay Idle In Cower

 

MLK Once Sensed An America In Pain 

 

Spread By Such Apathy’s Ugly Stain

 

So Let Us Heed His Wake-up Call

 

To Fight Injustice And Freedom’s Fall