We Cannot Walk Alone

Dr. Martin Luther King was assassinated this day, 53 years ago.
Courtesy: Bernice King (@BerniceKing - Twitter)

We cannot walk alone.

We must bond each, bone to bone.

We cannot build a cone

But a plateau where each of us stands a clone

Of another and our skin tone

Attracts opposites into our zone.

We must arise and erect a home

Filled with love to write a tome.

As we all must hone

The simplest virtues till our work's done.

All dressed up in purple robes

A royal race flashing diamond strobes

We cannot walk alone

And hewn out a stone of hope

From Mt. Despair, we'll die a crone.

Only together are we dope,

We need a majority of one

And a minority of none

And all hatred, racism and inequality be gone.

Like Social Networks on our phone,

We gatto follow, friend forever and condone

One another's weakness like corn pone. 

And each day, like Dr. King has shone

The light, we'll let love take the throne

And make our everyday, kindness-prone.

We cannot walk alone

We'll wander lonely as a drone

Only together will we change this globe.

Akpan