What "The Dream" Didn't Mean
By Omar Dyer A.k.a. TheFanNJ
As I sit back and visions the play back of the speech on video sound track.
I saw what the dream didn't mean to me.
The dream didn't mean young brothers and sisters in
And out of foster homes. Like bad rims on flywheels.
Children robbing and stealing just for a meal.
Teenagers rooming the streets just for a deal.
Girls having babies just so they can keep it real.
Boys in the corner pushing rock just to have a fat sock.
The words free at last didn't mean, first nigga to the free money line.
Welfare is a crime because it makes poverty the treat on the grape vine.
Fathers living in hell, sinning in jail and once they make bail.
They feast on the young but legal women,
shattering her dreams just to tell the same tail.
I am the first male to say I'm waiting to exhale.
The young are in the same spell that the shoes
of broken promises left upon them.
What did the Dream meant to me!
It didn't mean I was born in
to lust, clocked with dust.
Ventured by the rust that life created a must.
Like children with no baby father,
greed of a mother helping abandon a fatherless child.
A mother on the pipe, and a young boy holding his fist
up high wondering whom he has to fight
because crack is in his pipe.
A father on lock down who has four other children
he don't know about.
Or he locked in the cell dying cause his life is hell
and know he trying to put his foot down.
What did the Dream mean to me!
I can go on and on about what
we didn't do for "The Dream,"
but the reality is, are we listening.
The children speaks and we as
adults are not paying attention.
The saying is born a bastard
you breed bastards.
This poem sparked a speech or the speech sparked this poem. In any case the poem created this book, and it is a touching one to be the least. What the dream meant to me speech should be read and viewed. The speach is to be released in a book called: A Literacy Tour on America: "A Poem for Joy and Pain."
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