Hope

Your eyes burn with tears, heart hurting from loss

Yet you go on, for hope lives on.

The single good from Pandora's box

Is indestructible, 

A phoenix that grows only more splendid 

After it's death and rebirth.

The sole reason your hand is outstretched to the sky

Reaching for the fluttering dream 

That is just out of reach 

From the grasp of your hand.

The pounding in your heart 

When you stand near the one you silently love

And the contagious smile that begins in your heart

Come from the familiar child of Love. 

Just as the rainbow follows the storm

A smile will follow those tears.

The sunrise will always follow the hours of darkness

And a silver lining exists in every cloud

Remember little one,

There will always be hope,

A glimmer of good in all that is wrong,

For Hope will never abandon you,

Only you can forsake Hope.

Reviews

[An owl on the moon]

What a vastness that sings over time... through imagery of enchantments... the fierce phoenix rising... the gifts of Pandora... and rainbows singing of hope... Your words promise the good to come in the end.. Beautiful and lifting.