Hope or despair?.......you choose...

One of the many things that fill me with wonder and hope is light.

Darkness cannot overcome light, even the smallest flame from a candle is more powerful than the darkest of nights.

 

Quietly, like a thief in the night

despair and hopelessness

 steals our hope, steals our light.

 

The question "why" hovers like a bird of prey

circling our consciousness, tempting our matter grey

to seek for easy answers, someone that we can blame.

 

Why is there so much suffering, why is there so much pain,

why is there so much poverty, so many being slain?

Why is your life so easy, but mine so hard

why do you get access, while I am being barred?

 

Like claws, the many questions "why?"

cut out hearts and make us cry;

is this the way it has to be, then why me, why me?

 

Innocent or guilty, fettered or free,

this we have in common; to choose hope in what can be.

 

Despair says: it's not possible

Hope says: why not?

Despair says: it's useless

Hope says: it's not.

 

Despair says: Hope's an illusion

Hope says: Hope's a solution

Despair says: Change is impossible

Hope says: All things are possible

 

Despair says: Love is weakness

Hope says: Love is kindness

Despair says: Love is chemistry

Hope says: Love is unity

 

Despair says: Life is suffering

Hope says: Life is discovering

Despair says: Life is loneliness

Hope says: Life is boundless

 

Despair says: Hope is wishful thinking

Hope says: Despair is hopelessness thinking

Despair says: There is no light at the end of the tunnel

Hope says: There is always light, albeit ever so subtle

 

This is where despair ends; now.

This is where hope begins; now.

(Citizen X)

 

 

“There is a crack in everything.

That's how the light gets in.” (Leonard Cohen)