A Dream Deferred

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