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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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