“Hope is definitely not the same thing as optimism. It is not the conviction that something will turn out well, but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out.” – Vaclav Havel
Hope
By ROSTI
When the days were dark
With illness and death all around,
Hope lay dormant –
A lamp hidden under a bushel
Of despair.
But it still gave its light
To allow the man to go on.
How this happened
Was that the man was certain
There was meaning in the meaningless.
He often created his own meaning,
Certain of that hidden light.
The light waiting to be uncovered,
Placed on a lamp stand
To light the room of his life.
There was a certainty that the light was there
Just unseen – like a tree might make a sound
As it fell in a forest
Although no one was there to hear.
A light of potential.
Love removed the bushel.
Time and blessings upon blessings
Acted as that lamp stand.
Faith kept the feet of his life
Plodding one step ahead of the last.
And when that light shone
All of those blessings
Culminated in a cacophony of grace
Abundantly poured out
Flowing like honey
Into every crack…
© Richard A. Martin, Jr., MD, CPC, 2017
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