A DREAM FULFILLED

a poem written by Samme S. Samareta (copyright)
on the night of November 4, 2008
dedicated to the hearts and souls
of every man and woman living and dead
and dedicated to President Barack Obama

Thank you for the dream

The dream that was once deferred

The dream that is now no longer a dream

A dream that is now fulfilled

They say this dream

Is an impossible dream

But no star is unreachable

Everyone is teachable

To the ways of the heart and soul

Everyone is able

Go tell it to the mountain

Because their eyes were watching god

Mountain high, river deep, valley low

Swing high, sweet chariot

The promised land is not a land

It is a heart of a man or a woman

This time of a man who will lead us

To change and give us new hope

Go set the table for we will dine

We’re all one and all is fine

We will sit with the spirits of those

Who came before us

Who sadly perished

Who built the foundations of this nation

Along with the indigenous peoples

Who worked and toiled this soil

Who breathed the same air

That they even wanted to sell

Come let us sit among kindred

The souls of black folks

Nameless faces

Forgotten tribes and races

Erased traditions and communications

Still they rise

Tubman, Dubois, Harriett Beecher Stowe

Langston Hughes, Frederick Douglass,

John Brown, James Baldwin

Rosa Parks, Malcolm X,

Martin Luther King, Jr.

who ignited the dream

Countless dead folks

And living people

I am the dream

You are the dream

We are the dream

Together as one

We will make it

A reality.