Poem: “A Dream Deferred”

                                                                                 Langston Hughes

Finally
exhausted

too broken to pursue
this way further

we burn
our old maps

begin again
at the beginning

our long deferred
journey

into the dream

“‘A Dream Deferred’” from Fragments (Powder Horn Press, 2014). Copyright © by Charles H. Harper. Reprinted with permission of the author.