Doubtless by Steve Ericson

When I was seven,

I looked to heaven

and dreamed

of going to the moon

but pretty soon

somebody came along

to change my tune.

They put me down.

Bang! There my dream lay

on the ground.

Thank God, eventually

I came around

and dreamed another dream.

At first it seemed

a good idea to hide it,

confide it

to absolutely no one.

But that was no fun,

besides, I realized

I couldn’t. The joy it gave me

just wouldn’t

be stopped up. It popped up

at the most

inconvenient times,

offervesced in all my rhymes.

-from Hip Hop Speaks to Children