Naked Hope

Watching the sun rise in Peru

Naked Hope

It was summer in Peru and the water was freezing

The waves breaking on the rocks the way a man breaks when his mother dies

Relentlessly, desperately, hopelessly

Santa Maria was glowing with the lights of its shores

Santorini stood tall against the rush of the ocean

It was dark, it was cold, and I had just lost my hope

It was foreign, it was strange, it was raw

I was lost and the darkness of the ocean seemed to be swallowing the world

To choose to shine once again meant to jump from the sky

Into the darkness, into everything that’s ever been lost, into the pounding of a dying heart