When Dreams Are Deferred!

Dreams inspired and warm the heart. However, at times the dreams are deferred. I came across a poem entitled “Harlem” (A Dream Deferred) by Langston Hughes that touched my heart. 

The poem reads: 

“What happens to a dream deferred?

Does it dry up

like a raisin in the sun?

Or fester like a sore–

And then run?

Does it stink like rotten meat?

Or crust and sugar over—

like a syrupy sweet?

Maybe it just sags

like a heavy load.

Or does it explode?”

- Poem by Langston Hughes. 

Even is your dreams are delayed, do not lose heart or give up. The sun will rise one day. Let day break  not find you frozen, drunk and forgotten. 

Greatness is yours. 

Dream Radically Big and You Will Go Places

Dream Big, You'll Be Great!

Everything forest starts with a seed. Every nation or movement starts with a progenitor. You are not small and your dream matters. 

Every great building starts as a simple dream narrated to an architect. Simply paper napkin sketches have been known to develop into mighty ideas, concepts and edifices. 

Do not despise your dreams and simple thoughts. Dreams are pregnant with possibility. Capture your dreams in your notebook or journal. Sketch and preserve the dreams. Ask someone to draw the model, plan or do the numbers. 

Your imagination is the drawing room of your life. Your simple ideas are the sparks that you need to start your greatness engine. Dreams today; brick and mortar tomorrow. 

In every dream there is a seed of something great that can be built. Seeds must never be wasted, or aimlessly scattered. Without the power to dream, life is empty space and lacks colour and purposeful action. 

What dream are you pursuing? What dream had you given up on? Start dreaming again?