Harlem

By Langston Hughes

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?

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