There was a dream of mine,
an idea of most in a different space of time.
I dreamt of a place where a man stood in front of a crowd. People of so many colours.
Unashamed of the colour on his face,
nor the song underneath his voice.
Some of course,
hated him and his so called gang of "stereotypes".
And in all honesty, it wasn't a shy away from racism,
cause they introduced them as short time hypes,
failing to even pronounce their leaders name.
So that's what they walked in as, "The crazy gang of dangerous stereotypes".
They crowd fell quiet at their arrival,
and really the few who understood their vision came up in front with their tiny cheers.
Those against them sent their spies to try and infiltrate the group inside,
But their leader didn't mind. "Let them try and break what's outside, we're much stronger inside".
Their fearless leader echoed to his stereotypes.
Those against them tried to pull the plug on their little performance,
but it just made the leader chuckle.
"They can turn our mics off, but our voices will always be on".
Their fearless leader echoed to his stereotypes.
And now turning to the crowd.
"I know you hate us, I see it in your eyes.
You think we're quite strange for being a gang of such vibrant colours,
Which is the case, but also the case of how different we are from one another.
There's white on our keys,
black on our drums,
yellow on our bass,
red on our strings
And mixed in the lead.
I understand being mixed seems a little overwhelming,
but trust me, it was for all of us at first.
Still we need you all to listen,
we've got a song to give.
We're tired of this hatred for different colours".
Their leader gave the call,
as the drum began the count,
The crowd grew closer. A few began to dance, while others still stood in their places.
But you could see the jig expressed out of their faces.
As the song was halfway done,
the crowd was entirely full.
Where the leader swerved left and right,
the crowd did so without hesitation.
And those who had stood in place where now dancing with everyone.
Dancing as one entire nation.
Their leader lifted up his voice to the Heavens as they rained down a shower of lights,
flooding the entire room.
The leader fell to his knees as did the people,
his voice was tired and broken
But he kept the song going strong.
He got back up building his voice till it was echoed high enough to bring down a mighty tower,
And with one mighty call to the Heavens once again,
the song had filled the room with cheers and tears.
Those against them had stood behind explaining, "sorry but you've been suspended".
The leader with a smile replied, "we kind of figured, so we're taking this party somewhere else".
As he left with his stereotypes, the people inside had begun to follow behind,
They tried to break what's outside, but we're much stronger inside.
And that's the strength of our song that goes,
*** *** da da di *** ***,
*** *** da da di la la.
I had a dream where this was happening in a large room of people coming for a show. At first the people came only for a group who's music held no value or true message. And they seemed to doubt the stereotypes as did those against them. But what happened next was such an incredibly experience that I could dream that dream a thousand times again.
So I had to get up and put it into words before I lost the beautiful picture. I hope you enjoy it too.
I stood as that man in front of the crowd despite not being the best singer.