A Dream Deferred by Langston Hughes

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What happens to a dream deferred?

  Does it dry up
  like a raisin in the sun?

  Or fester like a sore--
  and then run?

  Does it stink like rotten meat?
  Or crust and sugar over--
  like a syrupy sweet?

  Maybe it just sags
  like a heavy load.

Or does it explode?

 

Langston Hughes
"A Dream Deferred"

Comments

[m-m-m-mother.livejournal.com]

This is very nostalgic for me! Thank you.