I hoped Things would be different I hoped To have much more Hope is fragile I hoped To be better To love and be loved To be happy and free from the shackles of my desires and pain I hoped To heal To be seen Hop is fragile More brittle than the most brittle of glass Hope Like an egg, To be cradled and never dropped But it us no use to hold on for it would break No matter how gentle you are Hope A thread so thin so small so frail Yet we hold on We hold on to the uncertainty of life To the vulnerability of our hearts To what is not promised We hold on to Hope and Fate But in the end In the very end Hope is fragile