By Suzanne Brawley   E-mail: Suzywoo2@aol.com
Date: 10 February 1998

What to do when hope is gone?

Life seems too much for me now
Rushing past me in a blur of colors
While I sit and wait so patiently
For the end to come, or a miracle to occur

No one knows, could know, or feel
The pain I live with each moment of the day
I've asked all the questions, faced the fears
To have no control, I feel gagged and bound

Why has this happened, what happened to me?
In what seems now just a moment in time
My joy was taken, my future, my life
I feel there's nowhere to turn, no light to run to

I see no one, let no friends see me
For the look in their eyes is so plain to see
The light once in my eyes, no longer is there
Hope's become a memory, so distant, long gone

I pray for the strength, to fight once again
My cries, my tears, alone in the darkness
If this is to be my life, now and forever
Then I wish to sleep, to dream, and stay there