If you were deferred...

<p>What happens to a dream deferred?</p>

<p>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?</p>

<p>Maybe it just sags
like a heavy load.</p>

<p>Or does it explode?</p>

<p>Langston Hughes</p>

<p>So explode like me, a Stanford deferral... but in a proactive way...</p>