Hope
I hate how the word hope
impersonates a pleasant state of being
How it whispers wishful whimpers
Soft promises to keep my heart beating
As if I need to hold on
While all faith is fleeting
When worse comes to worse
And I’m still taking the beating
I hate the uncertainty
of wanting and dreaming
I’m unable to relay on myself
to find what I’m seeking
though still I desire
dreaming and wanting without ceasing
Just like in the story
Of Pandora’s unleashing
And when she realized what she had done
She began grieving
Till she looked to her box
And saw but one fairy clinging
Hope remains here
Intrinsically ours
Humanities gift
The source of our power
why then do I continue
to live in make believe
when I've fail countless times
endless times, it seems
although I feel myself sinking
To the depths of days despair
Although we struggle to find others like us
People who really care
Although times are so tough now
And they seem impossible to bare
This one word that I hate the most
Never fails to be there