Harlem [Dream Deferred] 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?