I've carried hope in a wish basket; <br />tossed coins in the wishing well; <br />and placed my dreams on doily-lined platters of expectations. <br /> <br />I have never abandoned hope to cynicism <br />nor have I seen devotion fade in my rear view mirror. <br /> <br />I done all these things <br />because I cannott <br />stall in forward motion <br />become vague inside myself <br />lost to time, <br />to my own direction, <br /> <br /> <br />All this is not nice. <br />There is no choice for me <br />but to hold hope close <br />and wheel barrel <br />on <br />smiling.<br /><br />Lonnie Hicks<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/hope-in-the-wheelbarrow/
