A DREAM DEFERRED

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?
-- HUGHES

I HAVE WASTED TIME. S0 I HAVE WASTED MY TALENTED & SADLY WASTED MY DREAM. T0 MUCH TIME HAS BEEN PLACED IN THE "WHAT IFS" AND "H0PING" WHEN MY GREATEST DESIRE IS IN ARMS REACH. WH0 IS REALLY G0ING T0 CARE WHEN MY DREAM IS G0NE BEF0RE I CAN EVEN CL0SE MY EYES AND TASTE IT?

I HAVE TAKEN T0 MANY STEPS T0 G0 BACK & T0 SIMPLY ST0P IS N0T AN 0PTI0N. S0 WHAT CH0ICES D0 I HAVE LEFT? BUT T0 KEEP IT M0VING AT A FASTER PACE. WHEN MY DREAM IS G0NE I WILL HAVE N0 0NE T0 BLAME BUT MYSELF, S0 I GIVE MYSELF THE DRIVE T0 KEEP IT G0ING AND D0NT L00K BACK. S0 EVERYDAY I WAKE UP AND I THINK AB0UT H0W JANELLE M0NAE CHANGED MY LIFE WHEN SHE SANG, "LIFE IS N0T A REHEARSAL" AND I LIVE ..



FASHI0N. A LANGUAGE THAT I WILL W0RK MY WH0LE LIFE AT SPEAKING FLUENTLY. MY TIME IS N0W S0 LET ME LIVE IT. A DREAM W0RTH DREAMING ..