What Happens to A Dream Deferred?

Flow with Floyd

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