Dreamers

Oppression

Now dreams
Are not available
To the dreamers,
Nor songs
To the singers.

In some lands
Dark night
And cold steel
Prevail -
Bu the dream
Will come back,
And the song
Break
Its jail.

I taught this poem by Langston Hughes to two eighteen-year-old Chinese men today. They're able to translate the poem by looking through the Chinese dictionary. Then they're able to relate to the poem as they too are dreamers.

They said they'll never forget learning their first poem in America.