I have a dream

A very powerful speech by the late Dr, Martin Luther King starts with, "I have a dream..." and his dream ran into other people's idea of the world and got him killed. His was a powerful dream that challenged convention and the status quo. He dreamed of freedom and equality for everybody. Though he was a black man his dream was not in black and white; it was in color, like the beautiful rainbow.

When we dream of things that are not and we keep on dreaming, it may become real sooner or later whether lives are sacrificed or not. Dr. King had a dream bigger than himself. He dreamed for those who had given up their dreams. He gave them his dream and all who could hear him speak of his dream could not help but shudder at the power of his words and of the strength and majesty of the man who uttered them.

Today we see dreams shattered and scattered by the alleyways; of lives broken by drugs and alcohol; of broken promises that lay unfulfilled and empty as a bottle of cheap whiskey. I weep for the dreams of my youth; of the lost hopes that may never be realized. I weep for those whose dreams have grown insipid and stale. as mine had. become; I often dream of oblivion and how easy it would be to be without the ability to dreams when your dreams have abandoned you

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