Hope Be With You | World Poetry Day

Hope in a Sonnet

For all those who feel forgotten

Image assembled by the writer using writer’s own handwritten words & dove image by Gerd Altmann from Pixabay

He told her, “Where there’s hope, there is a way.”
She thought it kind of stupid at the time,
but he implored her to pray every day,
because the answer will come in a rhyme.

She felt there wasn’t any hope for her
Everything she had tried had turned to naught
Her words were invisible to the world
No one would listen to what she’d been taught

She decided she had nothing to lose,
so she hoped and she prayed with all her heart
that one day soon she would walk in their shoes
and her words would be considered their art

“Dear Lord,” she prayed, “Tell me how will I cope?”
He said, “Write them a sonnet about hope.”

© Carolyn Hastings 2021

‘All human wisdom is summed up in two words; wait and hope.’ Alexandre Dumas (1802–1870)

Thank you to Sahil Patel for initiating the ‘Hope’ poetry challenge. Sahil has timed the challenge…