Dreams Deferred
-With thanks to Langston Hughes
What happens to a dream deferred?
Does it shrivel up?
Like a flower in the snow?
Or burn like a piece of paper in a fire–
And then turn to ash?
Does it shatter like glass hitting the floor?
Or live long
Like love in a marriage.
Maybe it’s a roller-coaster, has it’s up’s and down’s
Like the top of a Mountain
or Does it disintegrate like sugar and water?
To only be tasted but never be seen.
(2012)
I wrote this poem based of the format of the poem Dreams Deferred by Langston Hughes, this is also one of the first poems i wrote.
