Hope

(I tried to submit this to broken_pencil‘s Write About a Word Challenge, but I had already done ‘Love’, so it would not accept. As I’ve already written it, here it is anyway:)

Sometimes all we can do is Hope.

Hope for a miracle.

Hope for a better outcome

Hope to survive.

We Hope to find Hope.

Hope springs eternal, they say,

Because there is always Hope.

But this is only because sometimes there is nothing else.

A stark truth stares at us, with all possibilities exhausted -

Only one real outcome.

But still, we Hope

For something else.

How now it has become devalued,

This word of final Hope.

“I hope you are well,”

“I hope I get to work on time,”

“I hope it doesn’t rain today.”

“Let’s hope for the best.”

Such menial use of this all powerful word

Has lessened the impact of Hope,

Reducing its power.

Hope is important.

We should never devalue Hope

Or give up Hope.

And never lose Hope,

For sometimes

It is all we have.