Hope and Despair

Hope and Despair

despair lodges raw in the body

which is deemed separate..alone

a contracting pain of

a weighty thing..

a darkness which admits

no suggestion of hope..

but hope seems to persist..

armed now with discovery

of new identification

of a white field which 

surrounds and penetrates

the weighty thing..

 allowing resistance to resist

the white foothold gently

is placed..hope enlarges into

knowing and seeping into

an emerging surrender...