HOPE - 101

                                  [PHOTO Credit:  A wild rose -- my photo, my camera July 2011]

(This is just for all the 'HOPEFULS' who think tomorrow will be better -- bah hum bug ! dht-OCT 2011)

HOPE is a terrible, deceitful, two-faced entity.

It will keep you warm now and again –

but when it withers and fades –

the cold always comes back –

more bitter than before –

for then one feels the loss more keenly –

after knowing what could have been!

No matter how 'bad' my Life is –

I Never lose HOPE, that someday –
somehow -- a chance will open up –

and I'll be able to have a better Life.

How does that saying go –

Where there is HOPE -- There is Life.

So I must have Lost some of my Life –

when I Lost some of my HOPE!

[Dorothy Hazel Tarr - 2011]