Hope

Hope is a snake lurking beneath the shadows

Never reaching parts of souls but always

There. Hope cuts through you like

A knife never leaving a trace

But creating a new target in your heart

Leaving nothing even in the back of your mind

 

Hope clings to your mind

But hides in the bottomless shadows

Hope attacks the defenseless heart

Always, always

Taking everything away, with not a trace

Left behind. Like

 

Wind scattering leaves, like

Light cutting through darkness in the mind

Staying there again to trace

All the memories in the shadows

Making sure everything is always

Connecting to the future and the heart

 

Hope steals your heart

Raking away your likes

And sorrows. It always

Stays for seconds, minutes, hours, in your mind

But stays beneath the shadows

So you can never find a trace

 

Hope is forever there for you to trace

Stealing all away from your heart

Making sure your hope never stays in shadows

And like

Everything, functioning your mind

Making sure it is there always

 

But hope shows who you are always

And makes sure to trace

Every little thing in your mind.

It helps grow your heart

Into everything and stay like

A bright light in the shadows

 

Hope in the shadows of your heart

Always staying in your mind

But like a carving: tracing the whole