Hope

Grace slipped into my heart

and quietly swept away the

strands of despair

brooding in the dark corners

she found there.

She tidied up the disarray

from too many moments of

discouragement,

discarded useless doubts,

brushed away timeworn regrets,

replaced flat shadows with

arrangements of gently flowing light,

and shaped unyielding… edges into

welcoming softness.

And when,

with wise eyes,

she looked upon all she had done

she clasped her sweet hands together

in pure delight.

And then, throwing open the door,

she ushered in her best friend,

Hope.

(Author unknown…)