Finding Momentum

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 by Langston Hughes