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life 4 min read 581 views Jan 9, 2019

Dreamer Deferred

Are you a Dreamer?

Do you Dream

What do you dream of?

Dream of Hope

Dream of FREEDOM

Dream of LOVE.

Darkness cannot drive out darkness

Only light can do that.

Hate cannot drive out hate

Only love can do that

A Quotable fact

 

The house

The house

The house is on fire

Match been lit

When was the match lit?

Nat with his pulled up boot straps

Bible in one hand

The other Kerosene

Had a dream

Colored s

Way Black

Before Martin Luther King

Dred Scott

Got caught force fed

Repeat Slavery

White folx mad

History disrobed

Who really has Devil Tails

So...

We still at Civil War
Over Civil Rights

Today slaves

Trapped in

Meth

Crack

Vape pen pipes

Pyro maniacally

Can’t you see

The house

The house

The house is on fire

We don’t need no water
We shall one day overcome 
We shall continue to fight to win
Americanized Bullying

Ain’t gonna make us slaves again
Surrendering

Wasn’t never in the plan
 

One Day
Freedom will Ring 
We are armed

With Dreams  
Like government issued arsenals
We will hurl freedom cries 
Like Molotov tails
Some may say
Peace and A Civil Rights fight don’t mix

I'll ask you this
Then who got another recipe to try?
Who got their thin slice eye 
On a bigger slice of this American Pie?
Who gotta voice for the voiceless
Or do we just remain Cottonmouth Dry?

Are you ready to rise 

Refusing to compromise?
Are you willing to dream come true?

Dream 
So I could Dream too

A dream
For more dreamers
In our sons and daughters 
Nieces and nephews

Dreams Manifesting

For history to hold on to...?

 

See,
I have a dream that one day…
Little Black Boys and Little Black Girls
Can play outside
Without fear of a drive by…
Poverty will no longer
Roam our streets

DIY Shanti cities

With trash erected bungalows

Invisible

Portable people

See

I have a dream

Police Brutality and Violence cease
That one day…
The hand of a Black man will hold the hand of a White woman and will join hands with a North East South and Western Asian, European, African, Australian, Muslim, Jew, Gentile and Christian… 

Unified!

In love we stand

We are all shod
In the imaged children of God
Remembering under our 
Different colored shades of skin
We are ALL Human…

Made from God's LOVE Within!
 

I have a dream that one day…
We will sip and be satisfied 
With freedom’s cup of love peace and equality

All Little Boys 
All Little Girls
Will Move Forward Steadfastly
No longer the separated by hate or race of our past 
Angeled Ancestors will smile down with pride
Singing Old Spiritual Negro Hymnals 

From the Heaven’s sky

No More Civil War

Or Civil Rights 

Blood Shed Strife of HIStory past

Then Let Freedom ring in

Then and maybe then

Let us all sing

Free at last! 

Free at last! 
Thank God Almighty

Somebody

Dreamed for me

Now, I have a dream too

But dreams die and

Dreams are forgotten

Dreams exist only as a prelude

Are you a Freedom Dreamer?

Make sure your talk aint cheap

Dream Destroyers never rest

Betta make sure you ain't asleep...

Are you a Dreamer?

Do you Dream

What do you dream of?

Dream of Hope?

Dream of FREEDOM?

Dream of LOVE?

Darkness cannot drive out darkness

Only light can do that

Hate cannot drive out hate

Only love can do that

I am a Freedom Dreamer

The seed of 

Freedom Fighters of my past

I will Dream

I will Fight

Until I and We

Are Free At Last

Because…

This house

This house

This house is on fire

We don’t need no water

Let this mutha***a burn

Fight

Love...

With all your might 

Strike that match inside your dream

And…stay Lit.

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mlowe5

JstMadeItup, what a powerful rhythmic flow of images of the visions of deferred dreams exploding into realities. It is so energizinfly motivating to know so many of us are 'striking " eternal matches of freedom. Thanks for this share. Peace and Love, mlowe5

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Elvan

Powerful concept stimulating delivery. well done

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