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?

 

James Langston Hughes. USA (1902-1967)