I Dreamed a Dream Deferred: Vocals by NomiS (@NomisHipHop)

There is not one human being on this planet who was born without a dream inside them.
Even before your actual date of birth, buried in the crevices of your fetal brain, there it laid. Yes there it stayed.
And in the way that water breaks to begin your life long journey, a dream needs that same nudge to go from that unseen, unknown creation, to becoming conscious thought.
The day we meet our dreams, the day we learn our dreams, because some of us have many.
Some of us have plenty. I wanted to play Pro Ball, be a Pro Skater and be a Professional Rap Star, all at the same time.
And in my pre-adolescent  life style I held the right, yes the right, to believe and pursue any dream that I felt worthy of my thought.
No matter how ridiculous, insane, or how asinine it may have sounded to my peers, my parents, or to my principle.
That was my right.
Simply on the fact that I held a pulse, and a heart beat.
To dream. A freedom that is unbound by country lines or cultural difference.
A freedom that i've always understood to be fully mine, yet I somehow manage to share it with the billions of people walking this earth.
The best comparison i can think of is oxygen.
Now in my reckless pursuit I stumbled upon a ditch, and this ditch was filled with dreams.
Now I use the word "ditch" as an intentional understatement but trust me. This thing had to have been carved out by Paul Bunyan himself.
Not only was this ditch full of dreams that had never come to fruition, but some of which who had never even met their owner.
Removed, withheld, withdrawn. Dreams, stolen.
She used to dream to be a dancer, now she just dreams to BE.
My thats a sobering thought.
If she was standing right here she'd tell you.
I've always dreamed my life would be so different from this Hell that I'm living.
SO now I'm hell bent on giving.
Giving my time, giving my voice, and yes sometimes giving my money.
Justice must be served and that responsibility falls on us all equally.
He may be forced to pick cotton, and she may be forced to sleep with a shell of a man on someone elses dollar.
But thats doesn't negate their God given right, to dream.
I've been called, and you've been called to restore balance, because the dreams they'd chase were robbed.
And to love another person is to see the face of God.
They dreamed a dream deferred.
Let them dream.