Thursday, June 10, 2010

A DREAM DEFERRED

What happens to a dream deffered?

Does it dry up like a raison 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?

By Langston Hughes

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