Unrealistic Dreams

Growing up we were always taught that we could be anything.
People all around you saying that in America you have the most opportunity
We sit in our classrooms saying i'm going to be a doctor, policeman, lawyer, firefighter, or writer
We say i'll be married by 25 with a husband or wife that never cheats and always comes home on time
We all are going to college to get that knowledge and come home to be someone great that momma can be proud of
Unrealistic dreams, it never happens that way
Back in the day our teachers should have told us that not everyone is gonna make it to graduation
There's gonna be some no grad's and some slow grads.
When we are kids nobody talks about the alternative routes
Night school, no ecxuse me Alternative school for the bad kids and young mothers
Some of our classmates die of gunshot wounds or get stuck in the prison syste before graduation rolls around.
So their names on the college acceptance letters are never found.
I hope you know those are just some of the things highschool students today are facing
College is a diferent story
Grade schools just aren't preparing the kids like they used to
Let's keep it real jus for a little bit
Many kids aren't smart enough to get into college
If by chance they ease in the work is so hard many of them just fail out
Or drink so much they are wasting money if they stay, no chance for continuing education with those grades
Others just don't have the money to get them through
With these issues there isn't much of a chance of getting a Ph.D and becoming a doctor or standing in a courtroom as a lawyer
I ask you do we attain these goals growing up in a world so cold
We don't because they are unrealistic dreams
Instead of doing all of the things we envision
Changing the world and helping others
We are the ones going to the doctor with no health insurance
And if we step into the courtroom we pray to God we still walk out with our freedom
Unrealistic dreams
We need to stop lying to kids telling them it ain't as hard as it seems

By: Johnna M. Brown
3/1/08