Raisin in the Sun
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
I read the play today. Amazing. 50 years later it still stands the test of time. I thought the poem from which the title is derived was fitting for how I currently feel.
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
I read the play today. Amazing. 50 years later it still stands the test of time. I thought the poem from which the title is derived was fitting for how I currently feel.