They saw your skin. <br />And they saw black. <br />They blotted you <br />with a black <br />as black as the ink <br />and as the night <br />which some storm had lashed. <br /> <br />They saw your sins. <br />And they saw black. <br />They cursed <br />and stabbed you <br />in the front, <br />in the back. <br />But waves of hope, <br />prayers and songs <br />swept you high, <br />so high that you commanded <br />stars to bejewel the black sky <br />and to spangle again <br />the limp banner <br />battered by many a storm. <br /> <br />They saw your skin. <br />And they saw the Dream.<br /><br />WILLIAM SIENES III<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/a-poem-for-barack-obama/
