Hope Not

I do not tend to hope for much of anything even if I may mention it once in a while. For me, it is a figure of speech or of writing, like OMG, and Zeus willing.

Hope, it is the quintessential human delusion, simultaneously the source of your greatest strength, and your greatest weakness.

The Architect in The Matrix

Nothing is sacred and surely not hope

Heed in the shower when losing the soap

No hope the curtain will hold if you grope

If you fall and break a bone you will cope

You could always think about it and mope

Or lie down in bed and take some good dope

There’s also that long strong thing they call rope

Yet it tends to require a bigger scope

Any path there adopts a winding slope

It may feel like walking on a tightrope

A sturdy Gregorian telescope

May show you planets and stars and the Pope

Yet a first-rate electron microscope

Will reveal hope is a lot like a trope