"Loud Dream" by Uchechukwu Onyedikam

Dear moon child of the Universe wake up and lift your golden feet & wave your hand's glory to your placid disposition however humble it may be without surrendering your human dignity For you have the worthy right to be present here void of dark imaginings of who's over your halo & beneath the sole of your feet Dear child see here as loud as the echoes of the walls of your heart not as broken dreams shattered by tricks, lies and politics of many men who are here enabled with authority-power to cancel the dreamers & nightcrawlers As a treader of this path stomping on eggshells moonwalking on the surface of every mountains without whisper or tell... Sing your songs loud to your silence & to the silence around you to halt all silences Even though you encounter defeat & the unfair blows of life knocks you down to earth flat — facedown! Beat your wings & rise from the dusty fall & wear your blackened eye with pride... and stand firmly in the sun with a will tattooed across your chest... fearless, deathless as the kill with shining sword and shield ready to battle... (to bury the dead in you) willing to give life another benefit of doubt For the dream is louder than the noisy confusion of life Blaze it... don't smoke it! ————————————– Uchechukwu Onyedikam called us from Lagos, Nigeria. voicemailpoems.org/submit/ facebook.com/voicemailpoems x.com/voicemailpoems bsky.app/profile/voicemailpoems.bsky.social instagram.com/voicemailpoems