Hopelessness is the most damaging addiction in the universe
...it has no cure
,no interdiction
no laws against
or legal restriction.
No easy to see physical manifestations,
often no outward signs of causing self - limitations.

Those who hide it best
are often the ones....
      ...needing someones help the most,
but they can't ask others
to help carry the load ..,

while those who write it
in bright flashing neon on their face,,
go from stepping just fine
to having a limp
when they come into another person's view,
they  spill their guts
like a shamed Samurai doing Hara Kiri suicide ,
and makes it twice as hard... to see
the signs of those in need...

...Those who are the best
at locking it deep inside...
....until that time
you hear yourself saying ...What!!
"wait ...WAIT!  they did what?
When ...? Where?
*** I never ...saw ... any..."

Oh ...yes you di....yes WE did!