Friday, January 13, 2012

A Dream Deferred by Langston Hughes

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?

2 comments:

  1. did something sad happen?
    or something good not happen?

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  2. Deferred dreams. Then I remembered Hughes. Curious to know the answer to his questions too. : )

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