From American to American

On this Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day

Me of European background--

And I love him the same

He’s still active for peace up in heaven with God

They’ve spirited me to write, risking me sounding odd

Will you take our word passion for your word soul for one day?

You’ll be missing out nothing, for they’re one and the same!

If you say no, let us make one day be all year

If I am misunderstood, I will trade back, with a tear

Then we’ll go out about town, in fine black and white dress

The sharpest combination by far, fulfilling us best

Our arms linked we toast songs

Flutes engraved in saxophone gold

Our hearts dance to dark embodied wine

Your passion, our soul

Cheers high with glasses clear of any color associations!

Yet rich with prisms from our light above, for our human nation

All of God’s arts combined passionately deep in our souls

No separation, shared relation, with art’s culture, our goal.