In Hope of

My flower garden the seeds I sow

Make soft soil so air it can breathe

Barricade with fence laid like wreath

In hope my flower will someday grow


I thought my flower my life so agile

And which one more fragile

The one that cared for life ahead

Or one that life cared for instead


In hope I live in hope I dream

Like river taketh in every stream

And all rivers to sea will go

So ocean lives in hope of sea to show


The mighty ocean in hope surround

Vast its domain and depth abound

To my little flower garden I groom

A glimmer of hope it will bloom


Such is hope and hope as such

Give it upfront or on the sly

A little bit if not too much

Seldom all I need to get by


Survived wan disease and malady

Filtered thru life’s microscope

Outlasted pain of tedious remedy

Killed only when robbed of hope