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They Will Always Fail To Stop Progress [1]
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Date: 2025-02-23
They Will Always Fail To Stop Progress
They killed Kennedy.
They killed King.
They killed Kennedy.
They beat Rodney King.
They killed George Floyd
and so many more,
but no matter how much they try
the dream survives.
And will survive as long
as there are any humans
who hold the dream
of justice and opportunity
in their hearts,
who know all men and women
are born equal in possessing
inalienable rights
of their lives and bodies
of liberty to travel, to vote,
to breath clean air
and drink clean water, to love
as they will
and to pursue happiness
through their work and talents
with food and housing and education
built on shared humanity's
understanding that every life
breathed into this planet
has value.
I love what is to come,
the generations coming of age
and beyond them whose dreams
will become larger and greater
than anything I can understand,
love and creativity
is the product of the soul
that dwells in all of us...
Hear my voice and let it out,
children let it out,
children's children let it out…
©2025 Carl Scott Harker
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