I Hope To Live

  "Everybody Hurts"--R.E.M.

 

 

I Hope To Live (2010, with an afterthought)

by Richard Michael

To have hoped is to have lost.

To have lost is to have loved.

To have loved is to have hurt.

To have hurt is to have been touched.

To have been touched is to have lived.

To have lived is to have died.

To have died is to hope you have lived.

But what happens when you've lost in love, lost hope in love?
And what happens when you've lost a family member and there's no lover to turn to?
And what happens when there's so much grief that you start losing everything else, your job, and your school is on the brink of collapsing?
Do you just surrender to loss and let it take its course of taking everything from you?
When hope is all there is, and that's even hanging by a thread, and your life is second to last, which of the two will you stand to lose?

You hang on, and then you start over.