What Am I Thankful For?

Thanks Giving
By: the iHope Poet

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So many hearts to be shared,
Prayers to be uttered,
Thoughts to be expressed --
It's a wonderful life, even when it's hard
and that, I suppose,
is a good way to sum up this gratitude
which so fully swells within me now,
threatening to burst.

of the King of Kings

Far Above

By: the iHope Poet

There is a blessing, perhaps in the form of a curse . . .

It is a hope of all hopes

to look into the face of doubt

and see the impossible reflect in its eyes

A faith of all faiths

to shine through the night, even

when raging winds threaten to snuff out the flame

It is trust, above all other trust, 

to relinquish one's fingers 

into the unseen hand of whatever fate may be named

And a promise of all promises,

which requires each of these efforts, 

and in turn grants the bravest, smartest and strongest of hearts

 . . . to that soul who stuck to his guns

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Hopes and Expectations

Maybe I Will

By: the iHope Poet

Cry me a river and float me upstream.

Blow through the oceans, and storm up the seas. 

Fight me a battle that seems to be lost --

Then win back the tempest and soak up the shock. 

Someday the world will give up on you. 

Someday I might just give up on you. 

Carry the thunder and rain down the hate. 

Burden the rivers with overflown lakes. 

Flowers at night never seem to rebloom --

Hopefully morning will shine on ours soon.

Someday the hope will give up on you.

Someday I might just give up on you. 

When the time comes, when we finally fall,

Maybe this love will be gone afterall. 

Couldn't we say we gave up on it first?

Shouldn't we leave when it's bound to get worse? yet,

Somehow I can't picture leaving this . . . 

But Someday I might just give up on you. 

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Delirium

Once More

By: the iHope Poet

Hold your tongue,

keep your breath,

don't speak words that you'll regret.

Break the deal, save the lie,

I have love, I won't deny.

Still I say,

don't look back when

you walk away.

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Cuz I'm gone

when you're here,

I've disappeared --

it's delirium, once more.

Rising skies,

sinking sun,

darkness shrouds the younger one.

Holding back, far away,

I won't try to make you stay.

Still I say,

don't look back when

you walk away.

I am gone

when you're here,

I've disappeared,

I guess

it's delirium, once more.

this is so much harder

than I thought it would be
by: the iHope Poet

you've only been gone for a short little while
and I regret missing the moment you left.
still, those words you sent me
left me breathless,
and even now, I realize them over and over again in my heart,
whenever I find myself missing you.

and the pain, the longing . . . I'm working on a mask --
a facade to cover the ache of not seeing you.
I find myself looking frantically, everywhere I go,
for anything that reminds me of you,
keeps me feeling like you're right there, close and waiting.
so that I can fall back into that bubble of air,
where I felt like I could be frozen with you, in time,
and delay the inevitable . . .

all of this hoping, this wishing, this broken, shattered, dissolved fantasy;
while somewhere, far away, you will likely never think of me once,
at least, not
until you come home. . .

let's pretend that day will come soon.

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