Hiding
“I am the judge and jury. The harshest sceptic, condemner. The executioner with the swiftest blade…”
What creative does not know the tale? The squandering of talents crying to break
What is hope but the last long cry of determination?
What is hope but the singing dream of liberation?
The final stand, last remnant ghost of belief
harking the call within us all in the moment of greatest need
Our bolden stance of defiance in the face of an impending defeat
Hope is the culminating shimmer of light
rearing against the verging wall of twilight
Hope is a flower of inextinguishable beauty, delicate and sweet
rising high above a wasteland of thorns and jagged concrete
Hope is the spark igniting the wings of bravery
emerging out of the ash above the armaments of knavery
Hope holds all we will ever be
A testament to a core of deep belief
Where there is hope, there is life
Where there is hope, there is love
With hope there is always a chance to rise above
“Hope holds all we will ever be.”
I wrote this poem at the beginning of 2022 shortly after the outbreak of the war. Fear caught like fire within the hearts and minds of those living with me in Europe. Vulnerable, we stood in horror, our hearts aching for our not so distant neighbours falling under attack.
Yet, something was happening… something unfathomable on the back of the corona pandemic, years of fearing one another, fearing for ourselves and loved ones – and now with the threat of war, possibly even nuclear – there it was: HOPE. It was in the hearts and spirits of the Ukrainians fighting for their freedom, their homeland, embodied and bolstered by their leaders.
Hope is a tender thing. Rare and delicate as the most beautiful flower, yet with the strength to move mountains when the circumstances arise. The world is in an extremely difficult period right now, with so much fear and uncertainty about our future or even what tomorrow might bring.
I’ll be the first to admit: I often feel absolutely hopeless against this sheer wave of darkness and problems that don this Earth like a constant cloak of doom. I know that I am not alone when I question what meaning, what goodness is left for me to bring to this world when everything feels as if it just has no meaning.
Yet, even as I catch myself falling down that slippery slope into the abyss of hopelessness, my soul is still searching for that last sliver of light shinning like a beacon on the horizon. Yet is the prelude of hope. The swan song heralding the changing of the tides. As dark as the big picture might currently seem, as cruel and careless as people on this planet may seem – humanity is and will always be that last beacon of hope.
Keep your light shining. The culmination of each tiny beam brought together as one shines with the strength of a thousand suns.
“I am the judge and jury. The harshest sceptic, condemner. The executioner with the swiftest blade…”
What creative does not know the tale? The squandering of talents crying to break
“If the heart could speak…would it shed tears of mourning for the scarring of the soul? Dragging steal across bone, carving in “I’m not enough…”
“What flows into song cannot be unsung, the motion of the world long moved undone…” Within each note is a chain to something far beyond ourselves, calling us home.
Berlin Artist, Artist and Poet, American Artist, American Poet, Nature Artist, Poems of Love, Berlin Poet, Spoken Word Artist, Best Poetry, Musical Artist
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