If I should....

Pockets Full

By: the iHope Poet

If I should live to see the day

When hope is bred

Like thousands of fish under the sea 

In every word to say

And thought to think

And deed to live, then 

I hope I would fear no longer. 

If my pockets should not be 

Too full of shy hands, 

They’d be open enough 

To fit all things good inside them,

Like tools on demand;

Such as confidence, 

Faith, and the will to press on.

And I hope I would not waste 

Such precious space to contain them. 

If I should ever come to know,

To a full understanding, of

What grand things hope may let me achieve;

If I should believe 

And open my hands 

To catch whatever life throws at me, 

Then I hope I would fear 

No longer.