Hope is a four letter word
Expectation derived from dreams
With no future
No reality
Expecting the best
Fearing the worst
Hope
Seeing the world through
Rose colored glasses
Always waiting
Always expecting
And slowly, irrevocably,
Hope retreats to a place
We cannot reach
Hope
Full of promise
Empty of fact
Carrying us to lofty heights
Only to abandon us
Again and again
Until one day
There is no Hope