Here's to Hope - a poem

The scariest thing on this planet earth is to hope.

               It drags you by the heels into a place dug deep into the bedrock

               and the more stubborn you are, the more it creates loose gravel

               as the tether tugs you forward into the horizon.

The scariest thing on this planet earth is to hope.

               You can feel the pain it causes you but you continue

               getting a contact high from the faint smell of the asphalt

               because it smells just like every other road you’ve been on.

The scariest thing on this planet earth is to hope.

               To believe so strongly in a future that seems so uncertain

               but believing through the goodwill of your actions that

               you might find the paradise you seek at the end of all

               of that ankle busting, and you look back on the torn

               up earth and you think, hell, I’ve come this far what’s

               a couple million miles more.

The scariest thing on this planet earth is to hope.

               It’s like praying to the wall but directing it up into

               some ethereal realms, its seeing a future, time travelling

               if you will into a possible nirvana, but knowing

               that multiple dimensions all vie for your head but

               you just want to be happy, you want to be happy,

               you just want to be happy.

The scariest thing on this planet earth is to hope.