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.