Despair - An Acrostic
Despair is the absence of hope
Distant flames - entice in the wind - atop a frigid mountainside
Endless terrain - jagged and twisted - mark a strewn pathway toward it
Slippage a certain - destination for many - who trudge and toil in darkness
Perilously grip - at notches much higher - grappling with anticipatory success
Apparent and mounting - the effort to pass - becomes ever ‘Sisyphus-ic’ in nature
Inane is the notion - that reaching at last - the end may even be possible
Reality sets - as erroneous footing - leads to an absolute plummet.
falling… falling… falling…
Ensnared in crystal - frozen and cavernous - alone, out of sight, and forgotten
Platitudes surface - to the mind’s forefront - but fade as the encasing continues
Open at last - a moonbeam casts in - through a hole afforded by melt
Hoisting and stepping - into light among snow - to find a lone dahlia blooming.
Despair is absent with hope
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L.Clabrough
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Comments (1)
Oh, this is brilliant!