a tribute to Langston Hughes

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your poem 'Dream' came to my mind as I woke up this morning:

Hold fast to dreams

For if dreams die

Life is a broken-winged bird

That cannot fly


Hold fast to dreams

For when dreams go

Life is a barren field

Frozen with snow.

                                          Langston Hughes


Thank you for keeping us alive with your dream

in these times

                                           quivers a voice in the

waves of sleep   sheaves of thoughts bleeding

at the doors of illusions   drifting among

disasters   betwen the pillars of mounting cries

the walls we erected to protect ourselves from

our fears    you see me   then you won't see me

your roots   push you   to the sky

                         your wings of light  

your words   your bread    your music

                                                                of all times

                     





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