Taking Time To Enjoy The Moment

The little ray of sunshine,

bouncing off the ground,

Gives us light,

and lots of hope,

That good things will happen,

And we'll all be safe and sound.

The little cloud of fluff,

Floating high up in the sky,

Reminds us of  the sweet, delicious cotton candy,

We have eaten throughout our childhood,

At carnivals that past on by.

The little rain drop,

dances on the ground,

cleans up all the things that have hurt us that day,

and helps up calm right down.

The wind gust are whistling,

a soft and soothing tune.

That sounds like Canada's national animal in the distance,

the beautiful swimming  Loon.

The snowflakes glistening against a dark night sky,

Dancing slowly towards the ground,

Looks really special, like something beautiful yet mysterious,

is yearning to be found.

The weather is all around us,

For us to look up and see,

 So lets take a moment

to make an observation of what is going on right in front of us,

and to sear it into our memory.  

We Have The Right To Dream

After listening to a bunch of Disability Action Hall members share their dreams a couple weeks ago, I wrote a poem based on what they said their dreams were. This is how the "We Have The Right To Dream" poem was created.

If you would like to listen to me read the poem in person, check out the Disability Action Hall's  Speak Out 18 event at the ArtBox  (1802 42 St. SE) on Friday June 3 2016.

We Have The Right To Dream
We have the right to dream,
A dream is like a key,
It opens a person’s brain to thoughts and ideas,
And all of life’s different possibilities.

We have the right to dream,
Of interviewing the people we want to see,
Because we want to learn about famous people,

Some like Madonna,
And other’s like Jose Rizal,
So we can decide who we want

To see entertain and influence others in

our international and local society.

We have the right to dream,
 of the all ideal places

We want to go and see,

Like flying on a plane to LA ,

so we can  ride Splash Mountain at  Disneyland,

Or travel to the Chicago Pride parade with friends,

Inside a really cool RV.

We have a right to dream,

We have enough cash to live a life worth living,

Outside of poverty,

A life that is dictated not by dollars and cents,

But by our wants and desires,

A life that gives us the opportunity to be happy and  free.

We have the right to dream,
No one should take that away from you and me,
We have the dream to be called by our individual names,

Not by the numbers given to us by others,

In our society.

We have the right to dream,
Of being in the homes of our choice,
In a community that we feel liked and loved,

Not stuck away like a prisoner in an

Unfamiliar area,

Looking at the doves.

We have the right to dream,
To be all that we want to be,
Lets celebrate the right to dream,

Because afterall we are lucky to be human beings

like everyone else, Who is free to live in this society.