Just A Dream? (June 23, 2018)

For one weekend

Dr Martin Luther King Jr’s dream

Is alive and breathing

For all to see.

Regardless

Of one's gender sexuality

Or ethnicity.

We gather to celebrate

Diversity and harmony

Of the human spirit

In overcoming barriers

That society puts before us.

By reveilling

Our innermost feelings

Of identity and self-acceptance

Who we are

As a greater society

And individuals.

Where love isn't

Just a word found

In greeting cards

Wedding ceremonies

Or to religious sermons.

Rather

An expression

From within

A beacon fulfilling us

With hope.

Enabling society

To overcome hate

And ignorance

That threaten

To consume us.

Therisa © 2018

Author's note: Maybe, I am a hopeless romantic, who dreams of a brighter future than the bleak present, we live in. Where it's so easy to be depressed and indifferent to the problems around us.

Another poem for this year’s Pride Poetry.