Harlem


BY <a href='https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/langston-hughes'>LANGSTON HUGHES</a>
 
 



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?

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?

Harlem


BY&nbsp;<a href="https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/langston-hughes" rel="noopener noreferrer">LANGSTON HUGHES</a>
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What happens to a dream deferred?
&nbsp;
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Does it dry up
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;like a raisin in the sun?
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Or fester like a sore—
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;And then run?
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Does it stink like rotten meat?
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Or crust and sugar over—
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;like a syrupy sweet?
&nbsp;
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Maybe it just sags
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;like a heavy load.
&nbsp;
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Or does it explode?

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