Hope will not leave me alone. <br />It stalks me and will not leave me in peace. <br />It pokes at me again and again <br />and will not let me stay content <br />in my defeat. <br />Wretched hope! <br /> <br />It feeds on my foolish dreams, <br />it haunts my mind. <br />It will not allow me to just give up <br />and accept the status quo. <br />Begone wretched hope! <br /> <br />A tormentor, a torturer. <br />Hope sees with eyes none else can see. <br />Wishing he would go blind, <br />I plod on and on <br />because of wretched hope! <br /> <br />I must learn to live with my affliction. <br />For hope, however wretched, <br />is better than a living death without it. <br />So although I complain and wish you gone, <br />do not desert me, precious hope!<br /><br />Lady of the Trees<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/hope-495/
