The Dream

Cherry

By mickleinapickle

Tue, 09 Jan 2018
  • 3939 reads
13 comments
 

He’d dreamed

a future of wealth

and abundance:

 

a world of harmony,

where disease,

war and famine

were abolished.

 

It was filled

with people born

of perfect genes:

 

a race of beauty

and symmetry,

where malformation

did not exist.

 

He told me

I was not in the dream.

 

I was too Irish,

too Moorish,

too Kurdish,

too Yiddish.

 

My crooked leg

would make me beg.

 

I was too autistic,

too artistic,

too atheistic

too altruistic.

 

My feckless way

was not Ok.

 

I was too poor,

too weird,

too black,

too feared.

 

My point of view

would never do.

 

He’s come to kill me.

Certificate U
Poem
Then The Rain Came
Opinion
Miscellaneous

Comments

Submitted by airyfairy on

A timely reminder that, sadly, such attitudes do not belong to the past.  The structure of this, the way the rhythm changes from the flow of the first section to the jaggedness of the second, is very effective at emphasising the content.  It works even better read aloud.

Submitted by TonyC25 on

Great write worrying could happen

 

 

Submitted by mickleinapickle on

Thanks Tony.

 

Submitted by David Kirtley on

A good succinct piece, and it says a lot!

Submitted by mickleinapickle on

Thanks David.

 

Submitted by Insertponceyfre... on

I'd like to echo what airy says - this is crying out to be a performance piece - speaking of which, we are having a reading night next month!

https://www.abctales.com/blog/insertponceyfrenchnamehere/reading-night-f...

 

Submitted by mickleinapickle on

Thanks for your comments. I appreciate your words. Unable to attend the meet in London. I've got too many commitments at the moment. Maybe if you hold one in summertime perhaps? Also thanks for the cherries.

 

Submitted by Parson Thru on

I like the repetition in this. It hammers home the points. Dangerous times for harmless misfits, the "imperfect" and the "foreign" may be in the offing. Doesn't humanity learn anything?

Parson Thru

Submitted by mickleinapickle on

Thanks for your comments. Humanity is slowly learning... 1 step forward, 1 step sideways, 1 step back.

 

Submitted by PoetonaHill on

I like this. It says so much. Guess it's the way life is, was and ever shall be, amen. It's the nature of humanity. Could be a fear of  difference that brings out the bully in people?

 

Submitted by mickleinapickle on

Thanks for your comments. You've hit the nail on the head.

 

Submitted by Ladylily on

Then we wonder why there are so many if us who suffer depression, alienation, loneliness, I could go on. There are many good folk in this world, who do not judge...but, the ignorant slide in and out of our lives, with their head screwed up, blaming the vulnerable so they may feel better. Your poem says everything and certainly deserve's a big fat cherry. Written beautifully. Thank you!

LadyLily

Submitted by mickleinapickle on