Dreams Do Not Die Because Of Daylight
Or give up in favour of reality, nor will they be crowded out, pushed, shoved, or squashed, but escape, yes, dreams will escape.
After one day here in New York, the city offers every kind of avenue down which a dream will escape. From Staten Island to the Bronx, Queens to Brooklyn, all but the hardiest of dreamers will see dreams snatched from their hopes.
Hopelessness, like a creeper, crawls through cracks and gaping holes, breaking the hearts of the homeless and surviving in a city that has long been a stronghold for the wealthy.
Be afraid of the places where dreams can be crowded out, Sunday in Central Park, mass reality moving unchecked through Trafalgar Square, forcing people to think about merging back into whatever world embraces ugliness, retreating from the notion that America invited us to dump our troubles at the door.
Learn another invitation, that of escaping the reality of cowardly politicians. It is the work of free people and every artist’s responsibility to keep dreams alive.
Dreams do not die easily, they don’t trip up, or fall off the night’s edge. They remain unafraid and lit up for all to see, forcing their way through shafts of disillusionment, shining through shutters of division, fighting bravely through each day toward a world just out of reach.
If ever a dream deserved to come back, it is that one I dreamt for America, the one about Just and Fair, Equal Opportunity.
I do not select my dreams; they subconsciously choose me. Don’t you be a person who knowingly, or mindlessly, slays a dream by letting today’s ugly reality be left unchecked.
Dreams must first belong.
Do not give up on our most cherished dream, that America will remain the strongest democracy in the world.
Dreams can be lost so easily, but never in the night.
Harry Hogg: English writer raised in Scotland, living between California, Missouri, Colorado, and Scotland
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