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Trust

              

Did I really wake up in America,

This rainbow-treed fifth-of-November Wednesday morning,

Or am I dreaming, hallucinating a grandiose improbability?

 

All I can think is that yesterday couldn't possibly have happened,

And I'm not even black,

A man with slavery in his denigrated genealogy,

 

Rather a white guy who's lived, most of his six decades,

Apologizing for being a resident of a border state

With a shameful history of flagrant segregation and race baiting.

 

But it did happen, and today is a day unlike any other.

We've entrusted our lives, into Barack Obama's keeping,

And he must be able to trust us, with his fate.

 

 

 

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