We laid awake at dusk
Daring to have dreams we were forbidden from
Hoping for the best things
Served only the worst for daily meal
Our dreams, they called unreal and stupid
So, we stopped dreaming and stayed awoke
Dreams don’t put food on the table they said
So, we decided to work more and dreamed less
The bitter truth is this;
We did not just loose our ability to dream
We lost our path in trying to find a way in nowhere land
We lost hope when they made us believe that what we had was all there could ever be for us
That where we stood was where we deserved to be
Nothing more, maybe less
You know, they told us stories of how life was brutal and unfair and taught us to be always ready for the worse
What they never told us was that life could be beautiful
That there could be a brighter morning, a fine lining in the clouds
That if we dreamed just right and worked just as hard, those dreams could be our reality
No
They took away our brighter morning before the sun rise
Calling our dreams unreal
We had to believe them, they were all we had
Our knights in shiny armours, our guardian angels
The ones we believed in, praying they’d believe in us someday
Believe in our dreams, even if they were stupid and unreal
But in their quest to protect us from the unknown
They made us the unknown
They stripped us of who we were to become
They stole us from ourselves
Leaving us with the loudest silence of no music.
By Chika Sophia (Instagram: chika_sophia)
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