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 (1951)
Què li passa a un somni posposat? / S'asseca / com una pansa al sol? / O supura com una ferida - / i després regalima? / Put com la carn podrida? / O s'escrostona i deixa anar sucre - / com un caramel de xarop? / Potser tan sols s'enfonsa / com una càrrega pesada. / O potser explota?