Sometimes the cacoethes loquendi of vocalising dreams to the myriad before the dream is decoded and inscribed and the blue print sketched to life, may be allegorised to the idiom of “the boy who cried wolf”.
Before the dream is sketched, during the time when it lingers in the mind, if vocalised, the masses only hear a utopian reciting of an imaginary cosmos echoing a mythical siren, and to the worst of ears, they only hear a cockalorum. In the Old Testament, Joseph was such a person, whose excitement and words preceded his dreams (Genesis 37). For this, his brothers despised him and called him a dreamer. The place for dreamers was slavery – a place where time and dreams collided, and in the collision, the dream annihilated and the dreamer jolted to reality. And so because Joseph spoke a dream before it was realised, his brothers sold him into slavery in order to kill the dream.
Sometimes there is a danger in impetuously announcing dreams before the orbit of the moon, the appointed time. The premature announcement of a dream aggravates the agnostics and the envious and triggers a chain reaction to suppress and sell the dreamer into a system of slavery – designed to purge, and bolster a dreamless state where hopelessness and oppression abound.
When Joseph told his family about his dream, including his father who loved him more than all his other children, they thought him foolish, mocked him, and rebuked him to cease dreaming (Genesis 37:10). Theologians esteem that Joseph announced his dream prematurely by twenty-two years! Before the great dream, it can be deduced that being the youngest of his brothers, only seventeen, he was often overlooked, not taken seriously, and ordered to run all the tedious errands. Thus, when he had the dream, it only seemed natural that he could not contain his excitement of one day soon, everyone bowing down to him.
From the page of Joseph, it is cultivated that sometimes it is advantageous to move in silence. Even the wise books of Ecclesiastes and Proverbs attest to this and speak on the wisdom of silence. They contend that even fools are thought wise if they keep silent and hold their tongues, and in this wisdom, a power is ignited in knowing when to be silent and when to speak, and knowing when the right time clocks to announce one’s presence. (Ecclesiastes 3:7; Proverbs 17:27–28). Even so, those that move in silence are mocked that they have no vision because they produce no sound. But those that move in silence, build in silence. And when they build in silence, they attack in ambuscade and win through actions.
Success favours the wise, the wise favour silence, and silence shields against slavery. But should the dream slip, and prompt them to attack and play you like a pawn in a game of chess, do not despair nor heed their counsel, for one day, when the hour hand strikes the appointed time, you will have the last laugh as you yell, ‘checkmate’! When the clock strikes the appointed time, even those who cry wolf will be vindicated when the dream giver exposes the end.
©Katie Mliswa and MomentsbyKatie.M, 2019.
