Hopeless Hope

Adunni the writer
1 min readAug 4, 2023

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What sort of misery can engulf a hopeless man that leads him to seek the solace of hope?

How deep is the despair that a faithless man develops faith?

Misery and despair greater than that which plunged you into a state of hopelessness and made you a man without faith.

The word “hope” lost meaning when my mom died.

I hoped and i hoped that she’d get better but she didn’t.

And she died.

My hope died with her.

I didn’t think i’d find myself wanting a flicker of hope again but here i was.

I didn’t know i needed love until i met him.

And I didn’t know i needed hope again until now.

I stared at his tombstone, my eyes filled with tears that i refused to let fall.

If they fell, it’d mean i lost hope once again.

So i stood there with glassy eyes and i waited and waited…

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