Hope

Coursing through my veins,
As sure as I am here,
Is more than blood, the will to live -
Another day another year.

Sometimes the flow slows to a stop,
the will is stagnate and decaying,
but like snow melts from mountaintops,
the flow quickens its step.

I never stop trying, to live, and do more,
even in those pockets of dark and gloom,
because like the sun rises,
to break the dark of night,
hope shines over me again, the most assuring light.

Herbert Oskar Holzbauer
© February of 2001

Midi: "Against All Odds"
(Phil Collins)

Art: "HOPE"
Artist: Paul Geatches