Rosa Parks Bus

A rustic relic laid to rest
abandoned;
yet, its history intact,
as on that fateful day,
December 1, 1955,
Rosa Parks sat firmly entrenched
where she needed to be.
A hard working seamstress,
in Montgomery Alabama,
her bus ticket supposedly
guaranteed a ride home;
just like any other American,
yet, in her heart, and, those of others
like her,
the unsettling feeling of getting home
really wasn't a guarantee.
Segregation was reality; not something
that many regard today,
as so many take civil rights for granted.
In the year of 1955, two other women,
Mary Smith,
and, fifteen year old Claudette Colvin,
refused to depart from their respective
seats;
and finally, when, Rosa Parks was
confronted with arrest,
the inevitability of it too commonplace,
yet the handcuffing of her hands provided
the necessary catalyst to errupt this
human disgrace of those of a different
race,
wherein her act of courage
stoked the fire;
hence the Montgomery Bus Boycott,
making the civil rights movement a
national cause,
bringing those who ignored this
injustice to pause.
As reality struck, change must be made,
All men and women are created equal.
For the abandoned bus, buried in a field
of weeds,
Detroit's own civil rights icon, Rosa Parks,
lived to see the return of that bus,
her history, not to be buried
in the dust.