Promptly 4 and 5

Hope

Hope

Do I know you, Hope,
though toward you I grope?
So often you’re courted
while I’m mostly thwarted.

And I’m Doubting Thomas,
afraid of the promise,
sometimes anointed
to be disappointed.

Though I know that it’s you
that rescues a few,
and I look for your light
in the darkest of nights,

the pain is still greater
when sooner or later
comes the end of the rope
in the sad death of Hope.


Line count: 16
Rhymed couplets
For Promptly Poetry Challenge, Week 34, 2024
Prompt: Hope.