POEM: Hope

by The Poet Man

HOLD ON TO THE HOPE

Hold on to the hope That wants to slip through Keep dreaming your dreams For they make everything new The weak and the weary will stand On the hope they continue to hold When the wild wind blows They will never feel the cold

Hold on to the hope As the echoes light the flame Change the pace in things you do So that nothing seems the same Bring back the desire of yesterday While the children laugh in delight Delegate your memories told So everything stays in the light

Hold on to the hope While your heart swells within Accept what you know can change As any virgin can sin Remember that darkness sees no color Because it has no eyes But now is the time to take notice Of every single thing that cries

Hold on to the hope For the silence asks you to follow Now you feel the clouds strain As you try to eat your pride and swallow Now the forces of the past refrain From telling you how to live life Take a hand in each and squeeze Because alone we are left in strife

Hold on to the hope So we can take in the scenery The seasons change often Which keeps hope for spring's greenery All the while, the rich get richer While the poor keep dreams to confess So tell the old man he can smile Because money doesn't equal happiness

Now the glory can finally be told The needs of humanity will grow But if you suppress all your hopes Then no one will ever know In time, all things will settle into place We'll have the answers as to how to cope But we will never know what we can achieve If we let go of our hold on hope

"They should have sent a poet." - Jodie Foster, in Carl Sagan's "Contact"Christopher Stolle's Home Page at: http://copper.ucs.indiana.edu/~cstolle