leaf of hope
hope is a pale dry leaf fallen off an autumn tree tied to the heart with a thread restless, tireless, and free at the slightest hint it leaps wakes up with a happy start celebrating, dancing, rejoicing in joys that do not last time's gloomy winds bring it back to earth it still waits and holds out shaken, but never shattered lying soggy in the storm staring longingly in the blue that leaf of hope of mine dies daily...and is born anew