Hope

 

Hope

 

Is it a word too late?

A word that is a step before and end

To give a false hope or to save intimacy between friends

The single word a doctor says for months of a loved ones life being insecure

Hope is to give faith to the faithless

 

Damn that word when you can’t quite promise your time to a child

For that child knows no definition but the simple phrases of “Yes we can” and “I love you.”

The word and feeling felt with your hands in your pocket listening for just some change

And all that is heard and felt is the word “hope,” and the trembling from within

As if that word itself has stabbed you as a knife, a word cutting you in two

 

Forget about its praises and its bright blaring light as if straight from the sun

Shadows truly lurk in that word, many mountains crossed in challenge

And only then when you can actually see a near to the end of a journey does that word apply

Why would you use such a word if you only knew it would be a final, a good-by?

I can see your heart now, I have made it across or through

Hope to see you very shortly, or hope you missed me too

 

A child is sick, a parent is sick or a friend

You wish them well, Hallmark says it would make amends

 

It’s just a word with no dreams attached to

And I hoped there was a pot of gold at the end of every rainbow looking through the car windshield

 

A mother is pregnant and for her first time

Does she dream about what her children will become?

Does she count the toes on her newborn child?

Did she pray that it will grow to be a healthy boy or girl?

Does she hope that her son will not be in prison long?

Or does she hope her fourth shot of whiskey will be as strong?

 

A child awakes in the morning

The sun is up and the TV switched on

The child doesn’t hope but knows that their favorite cartoons are on

And dad is at work, and mom is in bed

 

Hope is a word that our children use when they walk out the front door to “Hope” their friends can play

 

Gary A. Glasser

 

Author's Note

ahh yup..ignore da grammar