HOPE
It keeps you going,
no matter what…
Dragging your bruised body,
dead, eroded and frail,
Having swallowed failures
bitter, crazy and dreadful,
Wanting nothing more
but to rest, bereft
of grit, guts and luck,
Wondering how to stop
and why you should find
it rearing its head to sneer –
the first and last evil
alive in that box.
(Image: File: Pandora – John William Waterhouse.jpg (partial), Wikipedia Commons)