HOPE ( Poem, winner of The Great British Write Off)

HOPE

Hope is where the heart is

Hope is when you open the door

Hope is hoping that love will arrive

Hope is hoping that there is not much to strive

Hope is hoping you will come back

Hope is that the light comes back

I’m opening the door

Where there is much more

A strong shaft of light

That can conquer this fright

I’m not sure of anything anymore

But I so want, need much more

My hope is for ever more

Even if you do not come back

It wasn’t through trying

But it was your lack

Lack of trying

Yet here I stand

With my hand

Tentatively, hesitantly

Love has taught me to be cautious

Love has taught me to be patient

Love has taught me it can all go wrong

Love has taught me it can be a splendid thing

A heart full of joy, bliss

This heart does surely miss

So today I am placing hope in first place

A hope for you and me

That there is a better place

A place of real hope

For love and adoration

For our duration

© Teresa Joseph Franklin

24^th June 2015

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MISSING YOU

MISSING YOU

All that there is to remind me of you

Is our best friend

Here right by my side

An ever reminder

Of that which resided

Here in the warmth

By the fireside

He never wants

To leave me

Sensing that all is not okay

Guarding

Protecting

Crying at times

Oh yes he cries

Like a child

All I can do is hug

And cuddle him

And say all will be well in time

And here we both are

Feeling the gloom

And the doom

Since you left our sides

We will never forget you

Your love still remains

Goodbye sweet love

Until we meet again

Someday

© Teresa Joseph Franklin

23^rd August 2015

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