Friendships without Frontiers

I dream of me and you, dear Starshine,
born and reborn in a million shades and hue,
upon a world without fears, in nations without tears -
an earth living the dream, of friendships without frontiers.

Above the tainted gray clouds of my own indifference,

through a force stronger than the pull of all that prejudice...
I sought to see beyond the deception of a million worthless labels,

and hear above the incessant din of faceless voices of nameless hatreds,
that I may fly to the simple you and I and in the simple you and I - the one we.

I never used to appreciate Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. because I used to view the Civil Rights Movement in the United States as a movement for the rights of black people.

Now that I have deepened my remembrance of these things, I know that Dr. King fought for the rights of ALL people, and that in his own way and in his own time, this person - far be he in external appearances from my time and my place - truly fought for me and stood up for my rights.

Now I can not stop loving and respecting the man - for here he stands proudly, with all my heroes.

When we fight for minority rights against majority indifference;
when we together stand up for the least of us who can not stand up for themselves;
when we strive hard for the simple uplift of the spirit of the downfallen and the despairing
most especially the least of these from among all of the Children of our Mankind
- from any human nation Divine Providence has seen it fit to work in our hearts,
our LORD's compassionate concern for the causes of our common humanity -
we inadvertently work - alone or with others - towards the ultimate liberation of the souls of all Men
from that unhappy incapacity in each ourselves to think and act as human beings to each other...
and so begin to know freedom as Dr. King knew freedom in the Dream,
coming Home forever as citizens to each other.
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Racism knows no color, no creed, no culture, no Country.
It is a sin, the sin of inequality, and preys on all of us equally.



"We must learn to live together as brothers or we will perish together as fools."

Martin Luther King Jr. (19290115-19680404 of valor and love of Country) - servant of Jesus Christ and martyred scion of the elder Republic of the United States of America, beloved son of the one American nation and faithful servant of common humanity, vanguard of the Civil Rights Movement, friend of freedom, friend of peace, lover of the common Man - via con Dios.

The Legacy of Lincoln: Equality

Vindicate the Thirteenth Amendment
that prohibited from among the Many States
the institution of slavery
and win for thy Nation its intended victory,
in the spirit of Abraham Lincoln
and all who stand with him,
and in thy constant Remembrance, Citizen,
abolish the sin of inequality
in thy own heart.

The legacy of Lincoln is not perfect and was left to thy memory in need of some vital work, America. For the easy and idealized version of it conceals the hard truths...

The debt of remembrance owed to those dark and bitter times is without refute. 'Tis a labor of thy own heart, America, better perceived when it is claimed together with the memory of all those 600,000 souls who from thy 16th President's time intimately gave to each of thee, thy Nation's re-birth in freedom.

After the Confederate surrender at Appomattox, at the conclusion of the most bloodiest war ever fought within thy own Soul, the sin that sheltered and fed the many evils of slavery was left neither uncovered in the public forums of thy Republic nor defeated in the spirit of the Truth; it's overt symptom from within thy own Nationhood being merely and expeditiously prohibited by law.

For inequality was yet a living aberration in the heart of thy Nationhood; the victory intended by Lincoln was not won, and it's time never came to be.

In another hundred years, the incompleteness of this particular remembrance in thy Nation shall stir another generation to dare to ask the same question of Equality (the truth of which was already bravely fought for by Lincoln and company with visionary zeal and love of common humanity - at such an expense - during their own times and places - in spite of the greater adversarial nature of the times unto which they all belonged - for thy own good behalf).

For the Eternal Ideal of Equality, inked forever in the spirit of the Declaration that decisively conceived in time, through the great Providence of God, thy one Nationhood, was not consummated in the Truth after 1865, it was tried and tested then, America, then tried and tested again in Martin Luther King, Jr.'s own time, even as it is now being tried and tested still - in these sundry times, in these latter days...

For a question will ask until it ceases to be a question... what makes wealthy all Men, America? And what wealth makes any Nation great?

What was saved by Lincoln and all those who fought and bled with him on thy good behalf was a seed. How it shall prosper for all those for whom the seed was saved - at such great a cost to the life and promise of thy Nation is left - lovingly - to the life and labor of thy generations - today and all that is yet come - until the one spirit of Humanity - in the great and noble House of America - feels itself at Peace, and it's Truth - welcome, one and complete in the many as well as in the one.

Lest we forget, lest we forget...
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For the sin of inequality is a transgression against common humanity. Material is its form and has no quality to present to the spirit - only confusion - for it is neither a value that elevates, nor a virtue that ennobles, but a social sin with social consequences, foul and unwholesome to any human community.

Far from blessing, it curses. Far from healing, it prolongs death. Far from enriching, it impoverishes.