A Dream Undeterred Poem by Curtiss Hayes

A Dream Undeterred
By
Curtiss L. Hayes, Jr.


What happens to a dream deferred?

Does it dry up
like a raisin in the sun?

Beginning words
of a
Langston Hughes poem

The words resonate
In 2020

Deferred dreams
A plenty

Our people
denied justice

In the prisons
just us

Are we dried up
like a raisin?

Shriveled
to the touch?

Dreams RISE

Deferred
be damned

What happens to a dream undeterred?


Penned June 15,2020
Copyright 2020
Curtiss L. Hayes, Jr.