Brandelyn: Lyrical Contradiction

Hopes

Levels evened out

Images recreated with time

Scratching for the lifelines

Blood ties

Hugs

Love

Tears cried

Emotional suicide

My hopes buried behind the lines

That have already come

I bite my tongue

In hopes of understanding

The trail that leads to nowhere

Or somewhere

Or anywhere

That creates a smile

Strong and bright enough

To suck in the shame

With hopes of restoration

Hopes of sanity

Hopes of peace

Hopes of lovely

Hopes of laughing

Smiling

Dancing

Singing

Waving my arms

And twirling in the rain

Until the smoke clears

And the questions end

With a period

That flushes out

The quiet moments

That try to blend into eternity

Settling down silently

Leaving the mist behind me

Clearing out the avenue

For the hummingbird to sing

© 2010 Brandelyn N. Castine

 My Brother's response to Hopes:

 hopeful Ly (poem from my phone)
hope lighter than an ant can shift realities and create an outer space, where you can breathe. you hope to discover something beyond the rock on high that you build on, but whats higher than he? impatient... hopeful for a brighter future, a deeper love that compliments the love you recieve from god. for a swifter intellect to make wiser decisions and not fuck hope in the heart with foolish maybes. foolish "babes", foolish "i love you's" and foolish are you! foolish you will remain cause you never really know anything. so perhaps foolish are you for not hoping for things from a substance called faith. hope...what?? 

© 2010 Noah David James

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