My Dream

An acrostic response to MLK's 'I Have a Dream' speech

I know that one day people will set aside their hatred.

Helping each other, because it is the right thing to do.

And they'll come to love the differences that make us all so very human.

Violence will become a thing of the past, a thing to be remembered with distaste.

Everyone, everywhere, free to live; free to love; free to be.

All people, regardless of birth or choice or any man-made misconceptions, free!

Drink in this vision of freedom friends!

Remember, it is up to each of us to bring about this felicitous future.

Earning the right to direct humanity's destiny by our actions.

Actions that will say and show our dedication to a brighter tomorrow.

Meandering though the path may be, every step I take shall be towards this goal!

Author's Note

What do you think?

Reviews

[Susan C. Allen]

hmmm...I guess my first response is that this is too preachy and not enough imagery. Try telling this using a metaphor...think...show don't tell and see what happens. Obviously the idea is wonderful! ;D
Susan

[LawrenceRaybon]

Yeah, it is a bit preachy. With this piece I purposely avoided using metaphor or too much large language because I wanted it to be absolutely understandable. I was shooting for clear with no chance of misinterpretation. In the end I wanted to write something a politician might stand up and say in front of a crowd. I work a lot with metaphor and imagery in my other pieces, but I was trying something different here.

Thanks for the comments, and please keep calling me out when something seems (or is definitely) wrong. I believe the only way to get better is for people to call me out. That way I must make sure every part of every piece is written with true intent!

Thanks,
Lawrence

[Frontier]

Very straight-forward form of writing. I have read about this theme but the road doesn't seem easy. It is a beautiful possibilty to ponder about though.

[LawrenceRaybon]

“Nothing in the world is worth having or worth doing unless it means effort, pain, difficulty… I have never in my life envied a human being who led an easy life. I have envied a great many people who led difficult lives and led them well.”

― Theodore Roosevelt

[Relic]

You have a positive and commendable outlook and mindset. Unfortunately as long as there is poverty, greed, prejudice and corruption there will always be crime and murders. I only wish it wasn't so.

[LawrenceRaybon]

As long as we each do what we can to make the world better in our own way then poverty, greed, prejudice and corruption don't really matter. It's sounds ridiculous but it's true. There's not really anything we can do about human nature so we just have to accept it and move on and make the world better anyway!

When you write a novel you write a single word at a time letter by letter. If you get too caught up in the over all word count or page count or worry about writer's block or how awful you're doing you may never get started. Making the world a better place is much the same, go smile by smile and lend a helping hand every once in a while. If you worry about world peace or world hunger or how there are so many evil people or how you'll never make any real difference, well you my never get started. :)

[Taylor_McCutcheon]

I agree and hope for this as well. Lovely write

[LawrenceRaybon]

I'm glad you liked it!

[Woody]

Amen! Well said! An echo of John Lenon's "imagine" and, of course, King's all too famous speech.

[LawrenceRaybon]

Thanks! I'm glad you liked it!

[Aethereal]

That was wonderful, and it spelled out "I have a dream.". It inspired me to write the following:
In all Things
It's a "far better thing we do
than ever we have done before"
that we should possess moods of love,
not hateful harbinges of war.

[LawrenceRaybon]

Thank you!