Tonight We Will Get There

"Only in darkness can you see the stars."--Martin Luther King, Jr. 

in the End 
I see you and weep 
we will remember 
jumping out the window 
flying to Grandma 

not the words of our enemies 
God needed you 
plucked you from the heavens 
placed you back on earth 

but the silence of our friends 

how your voice carried 
with such eloquence 
like Jesus you were wronged 
tormented 
let justice roll down 

still nothing 
could corrupt your dream 
of a nation of togetherness 
roll down 

saint at a pulpit 
feeding sweet truth to your flock 
like waters and righteousness 
racing like regal horses 
trampling ignorance and hate 
like a mighty stream 

in the forest we will find 
the quiet and the dark 
tonight we will get to 

I will fight   
in my heart 
my lone lonely heart 

a candle against the darkness 
the cosmos will shiver 
dripping with constellations 
crystalline echoes of truth 

for 

tonight 
we will 
get to 

the promised land