Dream Deferred
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
rileen says:
Or maybe it rises like the phoenixto soar out of imagination
and into reality.
No, shouldn’t spoil it 🙂
Been thinking of deferred dreams? Am reminded of the line from Khamoshi :
Woh zindagi hee kya jisme
koi namumkin sapna na ho.
May 28, 2004 — 7:10 am
deelight says:
Wah Wah! Sahi farmaya aapne.
May 28, 2004 — 11:02 am
radhika74 says:
lovely! really touching.
May 29, 2004 — 12:26 am
shri says:
Love it. 🙂
May 30, 2004 — 2:06 am