Hope


  For fear of losing hope,
           I spent most of my time wishing,
                                                 dreaming,
                                                      imagining,
                                                           rather than acting.
  So it was quite ironic, really,
                     when the first thing I lost
                                    in the battle of life,
                                                            death
                                                                and ambition,
                                                                       turned up to be
                                                                                  none other than
                                                                                                          hope?
                                                                       And now hope to me
                                     is more a goal than a means.
         A goal that I may never
                                           attain.



February 22, 1997