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