Sometime Hope

SOMETIME HOPE

Sometime in an epoch not too distant from here
Where seas are calmer and people care about each other
And not their pocketbooks or bank accounts
We will have peace 

Somewhere in time there may be absolution
but not if it is dreamt of by misanthropes 
who begin wars and make victims of us all
yet, even then, the dream of peace will continue

At times when the wind blows cirrus clouds across gray skies
my mind finds hope in that place of peaceful solace within me
that strangely hides in plain sight
like the aged waiting for their daily walk

As adults, we also wait for hope to take us on our daily traipsing 
through imaginings of wordy minefields to help us know ourselves
to grasp the essence destruction of war ingrained in us
but our future is out there for us to make better or not

The question is, do we have the intelligence and compassion 
required to survive our own conflicted selves?
hope is embedded deep in our core 
as adults we use the idea of hope as children do the myth of Santa Claus

But hope is more than a myth; it is our lifeline to the stars.

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