Thought for the Day

[bcholmes]

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, "A Dream Deferred"

Comments

[d269330400.livejournal.com]

Not sure, but I suspect I'm about to find out.

I liked this one.

Suicide's Note

The calm,
Cool face of the river
Asked me for a kiss.

-- Langston Hughes