All I need is hope

March 3, 2016

So if something happened and I lost all my things

Would that be what hurt me and forever stings?

Or would it be losing all of my family

The ones who have always stood right next to me?

How would life differ without friends and without a home?

Would my life be over if I didn’t have a phone?

I can tell you for sure losing everything would stink

And sadly in reality you can lose them in a blink

What do I need if not them then?

It’s a short four letter word

Something all of us have surely heard

Hope, that’s what I need more than anything else

Without it I would be a barbarian wearing some pelts

I need hope to get through the tough times

I need hope to get through all of life’s binds

Have you ever looked into a hopeless pair of eyes?

As you watch them you can see that a part of them dies

It is hard to watch, it is hard to see

Like the most scared part of their soul is letting out a plea

I remember when my grandma was sitting in the doctors room

She knew she had cancer but was still waiting on the news

As the doctor came in her head went down to just stare at her shoes

Will she get better, or will things turn around?

The thought doesnt stop her tears from hitting the ground

Now I’ve been on the edge in a time I had no hope

Looking at the little bits of light and clinging to it like a rope

So before I chose a phone, or a friend, or anything

I chose the reason why on Sundays that I sing

In life all we have is a hope that the bad times will fade

And that our best friends will no longer put their wrists to a blade

Hope is essential to all of human life

It’s how America came to be, and how we wait to find our wife

And I can’t live without it, hope is a necessity

Because there is no life without hope for me

So I refuse to be hopeless and refuse to be mentally defeated

Until the last bit of my inner strength is finally depleated

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