"LOUD DREAMS" A POEM WRITTEN AND PERFORMED BY MICHEAL ONOBOTE AT THE LOUDTHOTZ POETRY OPEN READING SEASON 3 EPISODE 11 "LOUD"

LOUD DREAMS

Micheal Onobote - a fine Nigerian Poet 

Once upon a time was a dreamer

who dreamed big dreams...

that stayed as dreams...

I’ll turn the skies purple

Mountains before me will crumble

My voice may be quiet and soft,

But my dream is loud and puffed.

I'll take the bull by its horns and tail

Now has become forgotten fairy tales

Lost in the claws of hedonistic splendour

Buried in the deceit of youthful grandeur

I’ll be a great lawyer and win great cases

I’ll be a great artiste and tour great places

I’ll write ten books before I'm forty-five

We all had loud dreams to make us satisfied

Sunshine to moonlight, milk teeth to grey hair

We still never won great cases, or toured great places

Still waiting for our dreams, blaming life for being unfair

Ignorant that our dreams were waiting for us; for the world to see our faces.

Such is the story of the dreamer...

That dreamed big dreams...

That stayed as dreams...

Till he woke up to act...

 - Michael Onobote (November 2012)