by

Adedamola

#hopeagainsthope

From life's first witness

Comes death's deal;

Wandering wonder of sixth day,

Dog-eared will and brutal poverty.

Talk of days to come -

End birth in a beginning.

Or what do we do,

When fears of

a threadbare tomorrow,

Snakes into today's thread

of hopeful sighs?

Virtual future battles battered reality:

Weak kneed and sad eyed;

Reading future of hope lost.

So,

We sit at feast;

Downcast, unable to hope anymore:

As the day's hope sits at table with uncertainty.

Shall we, then, say the grace;

In hope that today's hardwork,

Pays-off tomorrow?

Hope Against Hope

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