Harlem

Harlem
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, Selected Poems of Langston Hughes (1990). Disponível em http://www.poetryfoundation.org/.
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