Hope-Sweet-Hope

It fuels dreams and musters trust

It braves belief before the flow’r

And fills our frames of mortal dust

With The Immortal’s awesome pow’r

It lifts the heart from dark despair

And shifts the gaze from trouble’s tide

As it turns worry’s woe to prayer

And helps us find life’s brighter side

It whisper’s ‘upsy-daisy, dears’

And gathers up the down and out

To kiss away their fears and tears

And offer faith to would-be-doubt

It grants the confidence to try

Replacing dead ends with a goal

And when death slips twixt you and I

It is the Wing that wakes of Soul

© Janet Martin