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Dream Assassins
by lynx Friday, Jul 23 2010, 10:12am
international / prose/poetry / literature

potent dreams
become preludes to reality;
if they inspire action
in dreamers and others
who participate
in the dream.

born in fertile imaginations,
nurtured with passionate desire,
dreams have hatched
every invention
we take for granted today;

from Tesla’s AC current,
which supplies the entire world with power,
to the supersonic aircraft,
which the nefarious use
to deliver death to populations
in impoverished, resource rich nations;

every advance and social reform
began with a dream
in a dreamer’s imagination.

yet those unable to dream
view dreamers with fear,
and dread –
dreamers are portrayed
as social maladjusts,
subversives and revolutionaries
enemies of the State,
destroyers of the
Status Quo.

wherever dreamers are found
non-dreamers follow
to compensate for
their profound lack
and to eliminate
the source of their
irrational fears.

at times it seems like a struggle
to the death
between two separate species
but sadly it is only
one group at war with itself.

a war that would end in extinction,
an insane race to eliminate
the essence of survival.

it is fortunate that
dreamers are in the majority
and are easily able to identify
those that would prevent
the free flow of creativity.

be vigilant
be aware of destructive
dream assassins,
they are only able to deliver
stasis
entropy
death.

refuse their perverse ways,
dream of wonders
marvels
and magic vistas
that open onto new worlds,
endless horizons --

We have a Dream ...