Hope Is a Toddler

Hope is a wide-eyed toddler

happily drooling in anticipation

of once again taking tentative steps,

swaying sideways, staggering,

falling forward,

down on bruised

knees...


only to be back and up again 

on fumbling tiny feet,

determination undiminished,

innocently undaunted, 

toddling tirelessly

again, and

again !
Copyright © | Year Posted 2006

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