They Say “Hope Springs Eternal”

But does it, really?

Artwork by Susan B. @HealingDoodle

In my experience,
Hope
does not
spring 
nor is it eternal

Instead,
when least expected,
it creeps up
and pushes through the darkness
like a birth.

And my mind
can extinguish it
as easily as blowing out
a candle flame.

Leave a Reply

Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in:

WordPress.com Logo

You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. Log Out /  Change )

Facebook photo

You are commenting using your Facebook account. Log Out /  Change )

Connecting to %s

This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed.

%d bloggers like this: