Dream Not For Today

Looking out the window,
What do I see?
Reflections of the status quo,
Metaphysical winds
Blowing against the grain.
Nights like this,
I wish it would rain.
Disenfranchised Americans
Dream Not For Today.
If Barack Obama epitomizes
the American dream:
I, still, dream not for today.
I, Too, Am America,
Langston Hughes would say.
If not for hue,
Would we all be blue?

Examining tenets of a dream
The King once seen:
Crossing socio-economic lines,
Most say
We are still far behind.
The pace of our time:
Disillusioned.
Most eyes are closed:
Birds flying into windows.
No more than an unthreatening handful
Quotas reflect the governments scandal.
American Dream has been a failure;
That is,
Only a few can realize this.

In its fullest sense,
We've got to get 'Beyond Imagez'.
We've paid an exorbiant price,
While being deprived of knowledge
Of contributions to American life.
Like forty acres and a mule:
Hotchu, we're tools.
I see a benign picture.
The dangling carrot is here.
WE have Hope?
My will makes hope my foe.
So I will hope no more.

Gangster images keep Whites in the dark.
These intricacies of race relations:
In opposition to whiteness,
Blackness is thus defined.
Literary symbols refine
A culturalization.
Stripped consciousness
Moves Black into the mind.
Going back in time, no such word
to relate to one kind.
We are Black?

The color of my core:
Some may see blue;
Some may see red.
Of the racist mind: see that
Disenfranchised Americans
Dream Not For Today.
If Barack Obama epitomizes
the American dream:
I, still, dream not for today.
I, Too, Am America,
My man,
Mr. Hughes would say.
If not for hue,
Would we all be blue?

In short,
up streaming blackwords
To recite a King James verse,
Unrehearsed: Till now shall you come,
But no further:
And here shall your proud waves be stayed?

Looking out the window,
What do I see?
Reflections of the status quo,
Metaphysical winds
Blowing against the grain.
Nights like this,
I wish it would rain.