77

I wrote this one last year when Obama won the Democratic party's nomination to run for president... I'm surprised because I totally forgot about it and never put it down digitally. Good moments deserve to be shared right?

"77"

Seventy-seven nightmares
even in the midst of joy
Seventy-seven reasons
For children to dream
Beyond hoops rusted
Bleeding away as many hopes
As fallen two-point shots
Beyond chain linked fences
Surrounding forgotten parks
Cracked in neglect
Stained from the seventy-seven shots
It took to drop a man unarmed.

Seventy-seven days
Seems too long a time
Even after hundreds of years
Of waiting in this line
To see a movie of history
Unrecorded
Forgotten selectively
Pushed and tucked away
With every revelation
Even by those who'd take up the cause
For seventy-seven moments
That hopefully begin to erase
Seventy-seven souls
Sleeping beneath waves
Seventy-seven leagues deep
Times seventy-seven
Times seventy-seven
Times the eternity of struggle...
©2008clarencecbess