A 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 (February 1, 1902 – May 22, 1967)
- American poet
- best known as leader of Harlem Renaissance
- wrote when "negro was in vogue" later changed to when "Harlem was in vogue"
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 (February 1, 1902 – May 22, 1967)
- American poet
- best known as leader of Harlem Renaissance
- wrote when "negro was in vogue" later changed to when "Harlem was in vogue"