President Obama takes his constitutional oath <br /> <br />hundreds of thousands of witnesses shout approval <br /> <br />on the national mall <br /> <br />and pray for his success to benefit humanity. <br /> <br />While in the hopeful eyes of millions across the land <br /> <br />President Lincoln's arms at his Memorial open wider <br /> <br />hands no longer holding his nation's stone chair tightly <br /> <br />and silently waiting for segregation to truly end. <br /> <br />(January 20,2009)<br /><br />Jim Norausky<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/president-barack-obama-s-inauguration/
