I Still Have Dreams

Eldric Sella
Competing in Boxing at the Tokyo Olympics
as a member of the IOC Refugee Olympic Team.
Photo Courtesy: unhcr.org

I still have dreams

Though my sorrow never sleeps

Still contending with the streams

Of tears and silent screams,

I still have dreams

Making miracles on bended knees

Decoding unsearchable mysteries

I still have dreams

Like the blue seas got shrimps

I still have dreams

I believe destiny's coming thru

I spy tomorrow n' it's all good,

I still have dreams

Even tho my past is grim,

And I'll keep on dreaming

Long after this madness done streaming,

I still have dreams.

I still have dreams

That what tomorrow brings

Is gon' up my blessings

My face is set like flint,

After dreams cease

And the universe peels

Apart at the seams,

I'll still have dreams.

Dreams of touching the sky,

Dreams of wrapping my fingers

Around the bulge of the prize,

Dreams of a uniquely better

Brighter, boosted kinda life

Dreams of being accepted as human,

Dreams to manifest the man I am

And having done all to stand

I still have dreams

That my dreams will birth realities

I still have dreams

That all of my tomorrows

Will nuke the weight of my sorrows

I still have dreams

I still have dreams

That these dreams will bloom

Right through the womb

And raise me up from the tomb

And enact Lazarus Impressions

Like a cup of fresh lime to thirst

These dreams I have

Will the Red Sea halve

Like a raised staff

Parting water to make dry land.

I still have dreams

That the world will see in me

A jewel of humanity,

Sowing seeds of creativity

To fashion scenes for posterity.

I still have dreams

Of churning my darkness to release

Me into a thousand beams

Of light that keep on shining

And shining and shining… 

I still have dreams

In the midst of these miseries

Surrounding me like the seven seas.

Akpan