Hope

This week's Friday Poetically with Brian Miller over at One Stop Poetry is shaping up to be a hot one! As Brian battles his heat wave, we have been prompted with the sun as muse.  After a slow writing week, I've taken up the challenge and present to you my own effort....

Hope Rising

When in darkness we dream of light

A ray of sun, a warm embrace

Life's struggle tends to lead us down often lonely paths

But the light will always wait for us

At dawn

And through the darkness, through these dark nights

When we feel all has somehow been lost

If we can only see those rays of sun

Within our minds eye...we too will arrive

At dawn.

For in the darkness there are lessons learned

Suspended in the classroom of time

And without the darkness, we would not recognize

The beauty that comes at the fringe of the night

Awakening at dawn.

And within the brilliance

Of light reflecting,

Within the comfort

Of that warm embrace

Hope remains ignited within the heart

And faith in knowing that a new day

Will dawn.