The Right to Dream

Sometime ago in history,
There was someone called Rosseau,
A man by name Marx,
And a saint called Gandhi,
Who dreamt about a brave new world……
A world where the free development of each,
Will be contingent on,
The free development of all…..
A world where the sweeper and the scientist,
Can lay their rightful claim,
To a common dignity……

But now,
The Dream is different,
It is,
To drive a Cadillac,
To own a house at Beverly Hills,
And have a million dollar bank account…..

The Washington Consensus,
Seems to be the human consensus…..
And the ‘American Dream’,
Seems to subsume,
All other mortal dreams….

This ‘American Dream’,
Is manufactured,
At centralized locations across the globe,
And transmitted through electronic conduits,
To be fed,
To the unsuspecting millions,
For mass consumption……

The Dream is mundane,
The Dream is readymade,
The Dream is standardized,
The Dream gets imported,
And the Dream gets imposed….

At the turn of the Third Millennium AD,
Man seems to have been
Robbed of,
His most precious Right,
The Right to Dream…….
About a glorious future,
For himself,
And for his brethren…..