REFRESH THE SOUL

Can Hope Liberate You From the Made-Up Dark Corners of Your Life?

Allow Hope to Surprise You

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Hope has wings that carry you away into goodness. Hope liberates you from your made-up dark corners. Hope is fierce! Why not allow hope to surprise you?

Hope by Lisel Mueller

It hovers in dark corners
before the lights are turned on,
it shakes sleep from its eyes
and drops from mushroom gills,
it explodes in the starry heads
of dandelions turned sages,
it sticks to the wings of green angels
that sail from the tops of maples.

It sprouts in each occluded eye
of the many-eyed potato,
it lives in each earthworm segment
surviving cruelty,
it is the motion that runs
from the eyes to the tail of a dog,
it is the mouth that inflates the lungs
of the child that has just been born.