"Dream King"

A dream is something that we see,
‘cause when we’re snoring and lying in bed
Sometimes our eyes want to keep on seeing-
They get tired of the blankness of eyelids closed…

Most times we wake up and forget what we saw,
But sometimes we end up seeing something amazing;
‘cause when we do wake up,
We’ll remember everything we saw;
And those dreams
Are the ones that change people.

Dr. King had one of those dreams.

He saw his children,
their smiling faces beaming back at him-
Living in a country where
they weren’t defined by the color of their skin,
A country where
they could sit in the front of the bus;
Drink from the same fountain,
And get the same education
that the white children could;
But black and white didn’t matter though,
‘cause everyone was equal.

Dr. King woke up and he shared his dream with people,
‘cause they too got tired of being judged by the color of their skin
they too got tired of being separate and unequal
They too wanted to be equal

He told everyone about his dream
He wanted them to see his dream
And all those beside him helped to realize that dream
And that was something amazing.

Martin Luther King died changing the world around him.
But the world didn’t stop changing,
People didn’t stop dreaming,
And his children
Would start seeing his dream

As do we.

-Alex Jamal

Run Run

Remember your little friend
the gingerbread man
he said what he meant
very straight foward
"run run as fast as you can you can't catch me I'm the gingerbread man"
you still ran after him
knowing you couldn't get him
but that didn't stop you
nothing could

time and time again
not learning your lesson
you chased this helpless friend
knowing you could get no where
his tricks were too well thought
your mind not well taught
in reverse phsycology and false deception

the chase continued to go on
your happiness long time since gone
you thought it was worth it
getting closer.. bit by bit
but he was fast
oh he was quick
he knew every little trick

but there was nothing you could do
you wanted to decorate him
in the finest attire
arrange his gumdrops in rainbow order
but he thought nothing of you but a liar
he saw your obsession
still ran away, continuing saying
to this very day
"run run as fast as you can you can't catch me I'm the gingerbread man"
And you couldn't.
So where does this leave you?
What does this leave you.
Hungry, very hungry
hurting shins
I learned my lesson
I think so
When the next gingerbreadman runs by
I WONT GO!

Becky :)