Hope Lost
Wanting all
Getting none
All this before the day is even done
Lost hope and burnt dreams
Have now but a shell to inhabit
Now reality has sunk in
And expectations
Are residing in the bin
Hope is a blender of emotions
Hope is longing
Wanting more
Needing much
Hope grinds away at your conscience
Contorting your psyche
Wrecking your inner peace
Despair follows hope
A multiplier of sorrows
An architect of self-imposed doom
Despair hope’s inner skin
Wraps a wanting man in darkness
Numbing him
When hope leaves
It stains a man
Whose abandoned dreams reek his environment
A stench most unbearable
We often wish to run away
From this contagious misery
Nowhere out is the theme of his day
Of him that let hope fly away
Misery gnaws flesh long since deadened
By constant doom
He only lives to see is misfortunes mushroom
His ever present pain is his only comfort
Brooding with resentment
He plot his own downfall
Sinking deeper into a mire of self-pity
A shattered man is he
With No care for the world or himself
Life is but a brutal regime
Of outcomes imposed on him
Him who has now become a non-entity
An unseen man he is forever going to be
Sometimes the shackles of living
Won’t release you
No matter how much you wish
That death would consume you
Grinning and bearing it is no use
If woe and suffering always comes in twos
You often wish you were in anothers’ shoes
For this life is not the one you would choose
Copyright © Evrod Samuel | Year Posted 2013
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