Hoping Does Not Bring Hope

“That which you focus on, that you become” — Yogi Bhajan

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Hope is not the hope hoped for over and over,
like a wheel with loose spokes.

Cast off past bandages you’ve placed on wounds
by wounded people.

Unwrap from deserving or
not deserving.

Change the past bandages
to daisy wreathes of compassion.

Enter the clearing until the past
spruce, pine woods, are distant, behind.

Walk on boldly as
the mystery you are, we are.

Breathe wider, inch by inch, possibilities.
It is destiny… your heart flourishes.

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“The very least you can do in your life is figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is live inside that hope. Not admire it from a distance but live right in it, under its roof.” — Barbara Kingsolver

Prompt by Sahil Patel who in the poem “Hope” Hope Poetry Prompt Day:-1medium.com, and invites poetry on “Hope” to coincide with March 21 World Poetry Day.

Sahil has asked that contributors reach out and invite other poets on Medium.

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