Dreaming and creativity

In our final workshop we looked at Maya Angelou’s ‘I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings’. We talked about the importance of creativity and how even in times of oppression, creativity creates a space where we can feel free. 

Found, not lost

by Joao Godinho

My dream lost color,  
it's color blind.  
Lost light,  
It's nightfall.

My dream had a voice,  
it's soundless.  
Had a speech,  
it's wordless.

My dream used to wander,  
It's hush.  
Was a dancer,  
it's limbless.

My dream was a lighthouse,  
it's lost.  
Went to sea,  
It's sunken.

What happened to my dream?

It dropped out.  
It resigned.  
It's not a dream.  
It's a fight,  
it's a wake-up.

What do you mean?

by Joao Godinho

The cage is the mind:  
all that we imagine,  
we will also want,  
so freedom is reaching  
the limits of desire.

To be truly free:  
we stop wanting,  
we become.  
we cease thinking,  
we become.  
we transcend limits,  
when we become.

Freedom is pretending  
that we opened our cage,  
when in fact,  
pretending is the only cage.

True freedom:  
is knowing that  
reality is a dream,  
words have no meaning,  
life is a fragment,  
tiny speck of dust,  
holding the whole universe  
in a cage of freedoms.