DREAMact
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We dream about anything to absolutely everything.
It's time now this new idea of a new millennium, centenium
Coming only every few years or so.
Don't think you're delirious because I'm being serious.
Its sad how those with all the economic resources are born into the glamorous life of a rich education. They might not want it but yet again, they might. I know I want it but I wasn't born white. I wasn't born into that life.
Because my mother was an immigrant, and young, and single,
I've been written off.
They say I am most likely to drop out of school and become pregnant out of high school
like my mother.
“Lucky”
One day at school
hands shot up
across the room,
for show and tell.
Lailah went to Disney world.
She had her mouse ear cap on
and pictures glued to a piece
We sit counting,
Developing ticks
That
Twitch and match the
Drone
Of an endless day.
While you sit
Towering above our heads,
Preaching from
Black books the idea
roses are red violets are blue
started cliche just for the view
can you say equal can you say fair
Repeated kindergarden
No big deal
Older than my peers
Okay
Can't drive
Can't work
Why?
Blame them all
My parents included
Deffered action
My blessing
Paid twice
Coming to America
To the land of opportunity
With no visa, no green card guarantee
No papers I say
I went to school
Elementary, Middle & High
In time for when,
College came around
All we want is a better future,
not just for our self...
but for out families.
Why cant they let as accomplish our dreams,
for a better tomorrow.
Why cant we have the same human right?
From fetus to 21st birthday, umbilical chord to college room and board, we’re dependent on the authority figure.
In a world of a thousand different faces representing a thousand different races, you’d think that we’d never have to be alone. To learn each other’s culture, dance the same dance, to embrace each other’s culture as if it were all our own.
