Thursday, July 17, 2003

A Dream Deferred

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