If you were deferred...

Wolffy25
Fri, 16 Dec 2005 16:50:57 +0000

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

So explode like me, a Stanford deferral… but in a proactive way…

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