Hope Sounds Like
Hope sounds like a toddler's laugh, Where the simplest circumstance Can bring forth joy unbounded and unbridled, Free of any expectations or shame, Reveling in the infinite now of pure self. Hope sounds like a sigh of relief, Exhaling not merely spent breath But the pent-up energy of anticipation, Allowing ourselves to believe again In a future that moments ago felt beyond our reach. Hope sounds like silence; The calm before the storm, The eye of the hurricane, The dramatic fermata rest before the resolution, Even if that resolution never comes. Hope sounds like a heart beating. Hope sounds like a heart breaking. Hope sounds like a cacophony of chaotic noise. Hope sounds like a still, small voice. Hope sounds like something so faint as to barely be heard, And hope sounds like a trumpet blast; Bugles heralding the calvary's last charge. Hope sounds like everything and nothing at all....