The Embrace

(Christopher Van Name)

Inspired by Hank Willis Thomas’s bronze sculpture, “The Embrace”, which was installed on Boston Commons in Boston, Massachusetts, US last year. It depicts the four arms intertwined, symbolizing the hug that Dr. Martin Luther King and his wife, Coretta Scott King, shared after he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1964. I tried to imagine the emotions that Dr. King might have been feeling.

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Here we are
You and me
We’ve come so far 
I can’t believe 
We climbed the mountaintop

I look at you
Sometimes I see
The way we were 
And then I need 
To tell myself to stop
We’ll never be that way again
We’ll never see those days again 
That’s no longer who we are
But look at all we’ve got 

I used to dream
We’d live a life
Content to see
Each day and night
Unfold before our eyes 

But that was never 
Meant to be 
Something more 
Would make us see
All the promise in those troubled skies 
And so we had to find the truth
And show the world that we were proof
That love will win out every time 
Our love will always see us through 

And all the times I’ve been mislead
When I couldn’t see the light ahead 
You always knew
Somehow you knew 
The darkness soon would pass

And when I stumbled or I fell
You were always there to tell me 
There’s so much more for us to do
You always said
Our time had come at last
How much longer will it last?

Let me hold you in my arms
Feel me in your heart 
No matter where you are
That’s where I’ll always be 
Never let this moment go
Let it always be a part
Of who we are
Remember me
Always remember me 

And when the darkness comes again
If I’m no longer with you then
Promise me you’ll carry on 
Promise me you’ll carry on 

And when you look back don’t be sad
Always remember what we had 
I may be gone
But we’ll go on
Forever, we’ll go on 

So let me hold you in my arms 
Feel me in your heart
No matter where you are
That’s where I’ll always be
Never let this moment go
Let it always be a part
Of who we are
Remember me
Always remember me
Promise me you’ll carry on
© Christopher Van Name 2023