{"sf1_id":303410,"sf2_id":"keN3Bzwm","title":"Hope","author":"Riverweasel","words":508,"posted_at":"2011-11-06T20:44:00.000Z","tags":["Clean","Poem","Poetry","hope"],"url":"https://fse.anthro.fr/stories/303410-hope","original_url":"https://sofurry.com/s/keN3Bzwm","image_url":"https://cdn.sofurryfiles.com/submissions/thumbnails/6c/64/6c64d098-1eef-4059-a78b-14539e901309","description":"#1 of Poems","content":"_I'm not sure if they plan on adding a section for this later on, but for now, I'll post it here. This is going to become my section for poetry. I highly doubt anything smutty will ever be posted in here, so if that's what you're looking for, try something else..or take a couple minutes to read the poem and comment on it, if you want._\n\n\u0026nbsp;\n\n\u0026nbsp;\n\nWhat's it take to convince a friend\n\nThat life is not a mountain\n\nOne must struggle to climb up\n\n\u0026nbsp;\n\nWhen does the realization hit\n\nThat control is just within your grasp\n\nIf only you saw beyond the blackness\n\n\u0026nbsp;\n\nWhy does life always seem to have the power\n\nThat it decides and chooses your future\n\nLeaving you as simply the passenger hoping your seatbelt holds\n\n\u0026nbsp;\n\nWho must come along to open up their eyes\n\nEven when the one they try to save says they're blind\n\nWhile they hold their eyelids shut as tight as they can\n\n\u0026nbsp;\n\nWhere can one truly go to accomplish their dreams\n\nIf they believe wholeheartedly\n\nThey are incapable of moving forwards without moving further backwards\n\n\u0026nbsp;\n\nHow does one overcome the pain of the past\n\nA past they feel is so overwhelming and so pressing\n\nThat they believe it will forever dictate their future\n\n\u0026nbsp;\n\nMany problems arise from the pit\n\nAlways questioning\n\nAlways judging\n\nAlways so convincingly strong\n\n\u0026nbsp;\n\nThose same problems grow louder\n\nAlways pressing\n\nAlways coercive\n\nAlways deceiving\n\n\u0026nbsp;\n\nThey grow so loud; they enter into your head\n\nAlways critical\n\nAlways degrading\n\nAlways so damned relentless\n\n\u0026nbsp;\n\nThere has to be a way out\n\nHas to be some key to a better tomorrow\n\nHas to be some way to make life better\n\n\u0026nbsp;\n\nThe truth is that there is a way\n\nThere always has been, but in the blackness\n\nIt's so hard to see\n\n\u0026nbsp;\n\nThe key is hope\n\nHope embraces the thought\n\nThe belief that tomorrow will be better\n\nThat good times will come again if only you hold on\n\n\u0026nbsp;\n\nHope is what drives the wife to wake up in the morning\n\nDress the kids and believe that her husband will come back\n\nFrom his deployment to war safe and healthy\n\n\u0026nbsp;\n\nWithout hope, there is no passion\n\nWithout passion, there is no desire\n\nWithout desire, there is no motivation\n\nWithout motivation, there is no progress\n\nWithout progress, there is nothing to look forward to\n\n\u0026nbsp;\n\nThus is the sewer that depression lives in\n\nThrives in, loves and grabs ahold of\n\nMindlessly latching on to whomever follows it down\n\nRefusing to let go\n\n\u0026nbsp;\n\nBut hope can always be grabbed ahold of anywhere\n\nAn intangible thought that begs to enhance one's life\n\nIt may come in a friend, an event, or from your own mind's will to carry on\n\n\u0026nbsp;\n\nWherever it may come from, and whatever shape it may take\n\nWhen problems arise and the questions in our head ask why\n\nHowever we come to the conclusion, the who we all look for will always be\n\nHope\n\n  \n  \n\n","series":{"name":"Poems","next":"https://fse.anthro.fr/stories/317596-pushing.json"}}