Hope.

If all that I saw wasn’t real
How can I be lost without it?
A reality within dreams I really
Thought would be dreamt
By the rest of what was real
To me
It seems doubt exists without all
That I imagined, hoped
Hope.
Such a deceitful thing
Cowers upon first glance of what
It truly is. Falls from beneath your feet
That you’d only planted there
For support
In nothingness
Hope can never be honest
Hope can never be trusted
Hope can never be real
When it is nothing you can touch
When it’s nothing anyone else can see
When it’s all you’ve used for your reality
Hope is a cliff
Hope is the end of a fall that never ends
Hope is a figment of all you see
It’s a way for you to believe in things
That will never be
They can never be
Hope will not catch you
Hope will not carry you
Hope will only deny you for it is only
Within denial that it can exist
Without reality.
You let it.
You jumped.
You fell.
You fall.
Hope will never catch you.

- Jessica Mary