This Is Just To Say That Harlem's Dream Was Reincarnated

It has dried
like raisins
that are in
the sun

and festered
like a wound
which
then ran.

It sags
like a load
so heavy
it just explodes.

My poem is a mockery of Williams' This Is Just To Say. I used the same form of This Is Just To Say to convey the message of the dream in Harlem. My poem contains the same number of words per line as Williams', but is more saddened than sarcastic about destruction. The speaker in Williams' poem destroyed something that belonged to someone else just as the speaker of Langston Hughes' Harlem dream got destroyed or postponed by someone else. The plum had been just sitting there like the dream, they were both inactive and somewhat of a burden to someone. Williams' poem is about an action that had occured and the speaker was sarcastically remorseful for while the Harlem is about a dream that has not yet been turned into action and distress that the dream for a community may have died.

Almost none of the lines have the same number of syllables as Williams poem even though they have the same amount of words. I thought that a period was needed at the end of the send stanza and the end of the poem to show that it was the end of a sentence or idea and the very end of the poem unlike Williams' poem which abruptly stops.