A Nation’s Dream Deferred

What happens to a nation’s dream deferred?

Will the people’s democracy shine

beneath the rule of the gun?

Or does it diminish slowly --

under the resolve of ‘The One’?

Does the illusion of strength, grow, when we rise to our feet?

Or does it need our ‘allies’ --

to send in, another fleet?

Perhaps the citizens will get what they want

so long as they do what they’re told.

Or does the initial problem of pseudo-stability merely reload?

{Inspired by: Dream Deferred - Langston Hughes}

Alan Salé