HOPE Harrows Heavenward

Suffering is substance of the mortal flesh, And

in Faith, HOPE Rages On!

Sorrow sinks, Despair depresses, Fear fights fortitude, and

HOPE is harrowing on!

News nullifies, nonsense into normalcy, Violence victimizes and viciously repeats,

And viciously repeats, yet

Even so, HOPE keeps on,

Carrying on.

Once oppressed, become the oppressors,

casting on another Caste system, but

HOPE, breaks through, barriers,

Consumption consumes consumers’ consciousness,

Calmness No More, the calamity of ‘Never Enough,’ However

HOPE still haunts their homes, even as

Politics produce panic, and accompanied by Privilege, Peace is pacified,

Passiveness promotes power of the ‘Status Quo.’

FULL STOP.

 

Queer HOPE refuses to conform and keeps,

Keeping on…

 

The Human Condition continues to

Create chaos, capturing

Cretins in collective corruption of our

Original Intent, now over time

Tainted towards terror, temptation to sep-

erate from each-

other, an entire nation of

individuals in dim dens of Self-destruction,

dwindling down and damaged, deranged and

Determined HOPE hightails it, headed

All the way down, in the deepness of

Devastation to devour Death Itself.

Hungry HOPE hijacks hostility and

Hangs it up on a hook, high, humiliated into humility.

HOPE Stands Tall. Triumphant! Not surprised

One bit. Staring straight ahead,

Piercing possibilities perceived impossible

In the Past… HOPE pushes us

Forward, urges us onwards,

HOPE leads

The WAY.

------Like an enthusiastic three-year-old; barefoot,

Babbling joy, chasing…

…the balloon, held in hand and high above

Head as a halo, that’s HOPE- an anchor dropped from

Heaven for us to hold while we are here

In homemade hell, our habitat but

Not forever, for HOPE

Is ever heavenward!