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By Timothy Okurut
What happens to a dream when the person who carried it gives up? In Buried Dreams, Timothy Okurut imagines abandoned dreams as things that can be mourned and lowered into a grave, yet never completely destroyed. Through the imagery of funerals, caskets, tears and burial, the poem suggests that an unfinished dream continues to call from beneath the silence. Although people may pronounce it dead and walk away, its absence remains present. Some dreams, the poem suggests, refuse to stay buried.
It calls out every silent night
with a tearing shrill that some might
slaughter a goat, sprinkle blood,
and do the dance upon the grave!
Those tears are now a flood,
for none is as brave as that!
Buried dreams are never buried!
The casket may be carried,
lowered, and hymns hurried,
but they shall remain, staring
and alive with a petition
surpassing human illusion.
When it’s six feet deep,
they say, “Rest in peace.”
But in vain, for a broken piece
of a dream you couldn’t keep,
cloaked in the dark silence
of unseen absence.
Buried dreams
stay present!
— Timothy Okurut
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