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Dreams

May 18, 2015
By omgits_jamie BRONZE, Bedford, New Hampshire
omgits_jamie BRONZE, Bedford, New Hampshire
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be here now.


What happens to a dream forced?

Does it blossom
like a tree with water?
Or stain like ink--
From a spilled blotter?
Does it freeze like fallen snow?
Or bud through the filth--
like a lilac trying to grow?

Maybe it brings tears
like a broken toy

Or is it just a decoy?


The author's comments:

Format based off of "Harlem" by Langston Hughes


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