Monday, September 06, 2010

What is hope?

As long as you have hope

All is possible

In the darkest of times

As long as you have hope

You know there is life in this world

When you remember forgotten beauties

When those forgotten emotions come back to you

And you suddenly remember

That the world wasn’t always so bad after all…


When you play that song

You just realise that

Things that are crushingly challenging

Are also immensely beautiful too


You are a brave guy, you really are

Taking on things that are really hard for you

I applaud you for that – I really, really do

I respect you for that

Only I know the hardships you go through

And I really respect you for that


And I know there is hope in this world

There is no such thing as an impossible thing

They are simply made by barriers that we erect in our hearts

When we tear down those barriers

You just realise

What a bright place this world is after all


The world only grows darker, and smaller, by barriers that I create

By roofs that I create to block out the sun

When really

The world isn’t so bad at all


When those happy memories flood back to me I realise

There is more to me than I define for myself

There is more to life than the way I define it;

There is more to this world.


Like a ray of light shining through a door open ajar

There is more to it…


Why is the valley of despair so despairing?

If that valley becomes everything, if it consumes you. If you can no longer think outside of that valley. Then it swallows you. The valley becomes the world, the world becomes the valley.

Under such situations, what is hope?

Hope is like a ray of light shining down the star-lit sky

Telling you that the valley isn’t everything

That the world is a greater place.