The Force of Hope

Hope keeps the diligent student buoyant

Hours spent working for an unattained scholarship, she feels deprived

Yet the prospect maintains to keep her alive

Hope provides the quiet child a voice

Speaking for what she advocates

Despite her introverted tendencies

Hope preserves the young idealist imagination

Her obscure daydreams feed off the mere possibility of becoming true

Hope maintains the reluctant artists' motivation

Her aspirations are shot down by society's boisterous expectations

Nonetheless her dreams remain vivid

Hope grants the timid outsider strength to conquer her anxiety

A chance to connect with the people around her

Slowly stepping out of her impenetrable bubble

Hope allows the emotional teenager to remain nonchalant in dire situations

Anticipating that the bad will soon turn good

Helps maintain her plastered poker face

Hope gives the overwhelmed adolescent reassurance

That she can make time for the things she desires

While completing the tasks the community puts on her

Hope permits this skeptical applicant optimism

In spite of her internal fears of failure

So if stripped from everything else

The one thing this aloof scholar chooses to take with her is hope

A force that gives her courage to improve her flaws

A force that resides in herself

A force that makes her indomitable