“I have a dream,” he once proclaimed

A world where no one is shamed or blamed

Where every mind can freely roam

And every person finds a home

Yet here we stand, so quick to judge 

We nudge the different, hold a grudge

We say they’re strange, we say they’re lost

Forgetting freedom at a great cost

“Injustice anywhere is a threat to all”

So why do we build such towering walls?

We push aside those who don’t blend

And fail to see where hearts could mend 

The child who speaks through silent ways

Whose eyes could tell a thousand plays

The girl who spins to her own tune

A world of stars beneath the moon

“Darkness cannot drive out dark”

Yet still we smother every spark

We force them into shadowed space

And miss the light within their grace

For the minds that flutter free

The ones who see what we can’t see

Whose thoughts are oceans, wild and deep

Whose secrets dance while others sleep

“We may have come from different ships, 

but we’re in the same boat now” he often quipped

So why not let each spirit sail, on winds where differences reign

For what is normal but a chain, a way to crush, a way to stain?

We ask them to conform, be still

We clip their wings, deny their will

To the boy who flaps his hands in glee

Who laughs at things we cannot see

He hums along to calm his fears

And when he’s scared he plugs his ears

 So, “Let us not drink from cups of hate”

But rather let our hearts vibrate

With love for those who don’t align

Who paint outside our rigid lines 

Let us sing for every soul

For every mind that makes us whole 

For who decides what's right or wrong?

Whose drum decides the marching song?

“The time is right to do what’s right”

To lift them up, to share their light

To change the world, to shift our gaze

And let inclusion blaze new ways