What Hope Is

 I walk on a path, the path is called life.

Through my life there have been plants.

Some are beautiful and sweet.

Some are nightmarish, shrouding my life in the dark.

The sun in my life has gone away.

I don't know when it will be back or even if it comes back.

But

I realise now that even through all the pain and supposed misery

There are lessons, a small flower grows every now and then, proving its rarity

proving it's beauty.

It's sweet, and beautiful but so rare. 

This little flower of purity and joy, with a sprinkling of happiness

it makes that journey worth while.

The pain is worth the everlasting sweetness, 

even if the pain in turn lasts an eternity,

The point being that no matter what you are going through or feeling there is HOPE!

Hope is the little plant in the corner just waiting to be recognised and understood by a very broken heart.

Hope is the Christmas gift or Birthday one hopes to receive even more than the iphone or ps4.

Hope gets starving little children up in the morning,

Hope is the only reason for the cancer patient to smile and act okay everyday that deep down they suffer.

Hope is the veterans gift, that the nightmares of the warzone will eventually fade.

Hope is present for those who are being and have been abused, that maybe one day they will come to terms with the monsters in the dark.

So perhaps this poem should have a different name or maybe not?

For hope is even in the title, although hope may fade it never truly goes away, like a 21 year old or even 50 year old,  that was once a child still believes in the magic and mystery of our old friend Santa Claus.

Hope is getting up even when you don't feel you are able, Hope is putting down that weapon, poison or object that you could use to hurt yourself or worse, and realising it is perfectly okay if not typical not to be okay once in a blue moon, even if that blue moon lasts far longer than the night is meant to.

Hope is understanding that you aren't exactly heterosexual that maybe you are homosexual, or maybe you feel you don't fit in your body, 

Hope is everyone getting along the best they can, stopping the games, the lies and the hurting.

Hope is family itself, because with family even if your friends are your family then anything and everything is possible as long as you take just a second to believe

Maybe these words might not mean anything right now but someday, in somebodies head it will click or at least I hope so. 

 Hope can even be scaring away the monsters from your child's bed, and reading them a story or taking them to a park when you can.