X                                 Tuesday, 24th January 2012 at 01:28

 

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?

A Dream Deferred, Langston Hughes

  1. peenpie reblogged this from theyearis1770 and added:
    I’m high so this is making me super deep
  2. theyearis1770 posted this