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When you want to illustrate hope there are so many ways to do it, but for me nature reminds us that we can come back from a winter of the soul.
Year after year, decade after decade, it does what it does, and nothing can prevent that unless we destroy it, as we’re so good at doing. We also destroy each other because we don’t have a strong enough connection between us, for me everyone I don’t know is precious, unless they turn out to be a criminal, violent, etc. You get the idea.
The one way it’s important to remain hopeful, is to have hope for yourself, and faith in yourself to make that hope into reality. This poem expresses where I get my hope from.
Under a deep and stormy sky
Our eyes seek light
And our heart’s scream “Why?”
The mood and the weather
A perfect reflection
Yet one is natural
And the other rejection
Rejection of happiness
Denouncement of love
Consignment of hurt
To the heavens above
As the lightning flashes
The sounds split the air
We tell the almighty
That this isn’t fair
We complain and we bitch
We moan and we grieve
And ask the great spirit
Why we should believe
Then comes the moment
The rain goes away
The clouds lighten up
And the sun finds its way
Through the darkness and gloom
Through the angry despair
And the light seems to say
“I will always be there”
Happiness comes
Sadness arises
Life kicks you too hard
Sends lovely surprises
Just like the weather
“Whatever” moves on
Leaving behind it
The calm not the storm
We remember the summer
Hold it close in the cold
As we must with good memories
And treat them like gold
Life will move on
The wheel of fortune will turn
Dreams will be realised
And hopes they will burn
Just look to the light
It will be there despite
The sad things that happen
Or events you dislike
It will hold you and warm you
Uplift you
Support you
It will be there forever
No matter what
Trust in and believe it
Be open
Receive it
And then it can help you
It can help you
A lot!
Deb Hawken
September 2021
Deb Hawken - Amorah 