The Need for Vision

Dreams © Langston Hughes

“Hold fast to dreams

for if dreams die

Life is a broken-winged bird

that cannot fly

Hold fast to dreams

for when dreams die

Life is a barren field

frozen with snow”

https://poets.org/poems/langston-hughes

Langston Hughes. Photo by Jack Delano, 1942

I’m convinced that most people have forfeited their power to dream. Further, instead of pursuing dreams, they settle.