A Dream Deferred
By Bruce LesleyDecember 20, 2010
With the filibuster of the DREAM Act in the Senate, it is a sad day for hundreds of thousands of children living in this country. Langston Hughes' poem “A Dream Deferred” comes to mind:
A 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?
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?
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