10/24/06

"The Dream Enabler"

The Dream Enabler

am I.

Dream Enabler? Sustainer?

Facilitator?

Without free love

Without justice

Without dignity and respect...

there can be no dreams,

Only dreams of dreams.

Visions of visions.

None acted out.

Lacking conclusion.

Without reality.

The dream enabler

dreams of dreams

envisions visions

sees no end to his own...

But that is his (her) fate.

To enable dreams for the rest.

A selfless act?

Hardly.

A claim.

That all dreams pursued

lay credit to his work.

That all dreams pursued

"would not be possible..."

without the support of

the hard work of

the immeasurable sacrifice of

he/she who enables a world

of selfish pursuit.

A pursuit unparalleled by those incapable of dreaming.

The dream enabler

annoints every dream,

blesses it with his (her)

approval.

And ironically,

This pursuit of the dream by the dreamer

at the expense of

everything and

everyone else

is not selfish in the least.

But is simply -- the confirmation

the validation

of love.

This is a selfless act.

A paradox reasoned out only

by those, understandable only

by those who share

or lay ground to

this most righteous of paths.

Every South Asian dreamer

has ties to a movement.

Of self-rule, of independence,

of a dream enabler,

named Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi.

Mahatma.

"The great one."

Surely but a figure-head.

Without fault?

Of course not.

Without malice, malcontent, misanthropy.

Surely.

Love everlasting, immeasurable,

Infinite?

Made finite by our shortcomings.

By the shortcomings of some

to dream, to enable dreams.

Cesar Chavez

the muse.

Malcolm X.

militant in his mission.

misguideded?

Even he came upon a message.

A message from God.

Distorted by two

illegitimate nations:

a disciple of one,

citizen of the other.

Given clarity by

the nation of mankind.

True Islam.

Unified by a dream.

And so there have been

an everlasting line of dream enablers.

The prophets, the pioneers...

the possessors of Spirit.

But I would like to lay claim

and title

to the present day

dream enabler.

The organizer

The American labor organizer.

I can account only

for what I know.

In Africa

In India

In Europe and the rest of Asia,

who enables dreams?

I don't know.

But here

there is no doubt

no debate

no disqualifying round.

The organizer ("American," "labor," these qualifyers, by now, hopefully, understood)

stands alone.

Selfish

Selfless

Subordinate

to the dreams of mankind.