The Girl Who Could Lose Everything For Hope

2020-11-21

Hope is a strange beast. It is sometimes the only false note in our lives, and paradoxically - or because of that - is also the slender thread which keeps us alive to possibilities of life. Little things take on meaning - little actions, little thoughts - nothing seems untoward or wasted. Those who are too hopeful, are called foolish, sometimes foolish optimists. But when something is a lifeline and gives meaning, how can that be bad. Being foolish is a choice so many are willing to make ...

Hope is a strange beast. It is sometimes the only false note in our lives, and paradoxically - or because of that - is also the slender thread which keeps us alive to possibilities of life.

Little things take on meaning - little actions, little thoughts - nothing seems untoward or wasted.

Those who are too hopeful, are called foolish, sometimes foolish optimists. But when something is a lifeline and gives meaning, how can that be bad.

Being foolish is a choice so many are willing to make simply because it gives an extra color to the dawn, removes the color of pain from an iridescent evening, gives something to look forward to in life when everything is gray and impenetrable and unreachable.

Hope is that dream which one can tangibly feel, like the bird which flies by but drops a broken feather in your hands - the bird might go away, but it does leave behind beauty, and something to hold onto....

Uncut Poetry is brought to you by Sunil Bhandari.

Sunil Bhandari is a poet based out of India. His book of poetry 'Of Love and Other Abandonments' was an Amazon bestseller. His second book 'Of journeys & Other Ways to Get Lost' is just out. Both are available in Kindle on Amazon.

Sunil is on Instagram at @sunilgivesup.

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