For all the dreamers

For all the dreamers

You've got your head in the clouds

You're so unfocused

Why can't you sit still?

You can't finish a project

Pay attention!

Not everyone who wants to be famous becomes famous

Dreams happen, but not to you

If you drop out of school, you will be nothing

Your dreams are too big

You're a fool

You have an Insatiable appetite for excess

You're obsessed

Your energy would be better spent changing the world in a different way

Forget you!

I'm a dreamer,and I'm not letting go

You don't understand

What you don't know

I'm going to seek the art

Find the beauty

Value the truth

Make my own music

Work my ass off

Pull myself out of this mess

I'll be known

For the gift I possess   

            One day,   

                        I hope you find your own

Poetry by Courtney Hanes, Art by Sandra Moreano

This poem was inspired by the Oscar's overall, but Jared Leto's acceptance speech for supporting actor, first up, really solidified the beauty of the night; the transforming of oneself into a character to move others. It is the human experience that we all have in common which connects us, and inspires us. His speech, his character, and his story of birth to a single, teenage, dropout mother, really hits home. He paid tribute to those around the world who are living through war, disease, and poverty, and who have not let go of the dreams. Today's poem is for all the dreamers... because the only way to continue to dream is to insist that those dreams are stronger than those who