Hope

I’m attending a writing class through wellspring - it’s called writing your way to inner peace.

It’s focused on poems and last time we were given this prompt to use to write one:  “I know that hope is”

Here’s what I wrote

I know that hope is my friend and ally

When I darkness or despair of life’s challenges I seek it out

It is always there behind the shadows

It just needs to be summoned.

And it comes to me like the sun as it rises in the morning

Beckoning me to come out of the dark

And believe in the future

Where there is life there is hope

Where there is love and gratitude there is hope

Pick it up and hold it like a stone in your palm

And carry it with you always

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I really enjoy this writing class and hearing everyone’s poems. we had a lot of similar themes and it helps to feel bonded and less alone.

One woman had a line that hit me - about holding on to hope with clenched fists! Yeah baby!!