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?
– by Langston Hughes
I don't know. My dreams are feeling deferred, today. So I wondered.