A Dream Deffered

[ellisonz]

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

[madfloridian]

1. It explodes and soils others around it.

And dirties everything in sight. That is what deferred dreams do if not handled graciously.

[ellisonz]

2. I think we're at the sagging stage.

:hi:

[woolldog]

3. One of my favorite poems

[ellisonz]

4. Kick.