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A light burning so bright pierces womb’s dreams Strong, yet delicate through eternal streams. A voice of reason, strong in compliant liberty Fights the good fight for youth and fraternity.
Bayful pigs line up in slaughtered confusion Aided by the military of uncompromising delusion. Reason prevails denied by all treason Sacrifice returning beyond life’s true season.
A lonely bay could have been the ceremonial ending Of life’s greatest falsehood beyond all mending. Dedication of native souls secured the rescue Of the revered one, such chosen of the few.
The King spoke of dreams unanswered and rights The youthful flame rose in early triumph but confused this plight. Hesitating, considering the fuller picture The flame started smouldering in earnest conjecture.
The revenge of the Titan sat on eternity’s door Cuban dilemma within the labour of earth’s poor. Blockade and proclamation prevented ultimate disaster The flame flickered in dust’s shadow of genetical alabaster.
The killer of pain coursed through the ministerial discourse Erect, horizontal following the need of his source. Berlin’s crowning glory taunted crowds in the summer The harvest of dreams in our western’s reuter.
Hollywood’s dream masked by reality Increased the flame’s brightness in cumbersome banality. Masked by brothers and family united The legend grew with love’s true requited.
A shot from storage unleashed the flame’s light Two strokes of lightest lead diminished his plight. Dreams unfulfilled masked the ultimate reality That the son of light had reached earnest capacity.
Now forty years on we continue our scrutiny Of the light’s true conviction to resist this mutiny. Equality partially secured through the dreams of this solitary man Pervades darkest reality of his eternal plan.
40 years on – dedicated to the light - ‘JFK’
Ó 2003 Steven Longman-Marshall – all rights reserved
22nd November 2003.
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