I Have A Dream
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Dreams.
Dreams so powerful in your Mind
become blank and dark.
Dreams as big as the sky
never able to get out of its cage.
Dreams that will never come true because you are different.
Dreams.
Knowing I will never pursue them
even though I still hold on to the strand of Hope.
Never able to Pursue the things I Love most
because of my skin tone.
Dreams.
Wishing upon every shooting star
for the white flesh others have.
Hoping this was all a dream,
and the reality is just a dream.
Dreams.
Not allowed rights.
Not considered a person.
Waiting for things to change
when the stubbornness of the people never lets go.
Maybe the world was meant to be unfair to people like me.
My Dreams will make up the Person I am
even though I cannot Follow them.
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Claire Y.Hong (2018)