Hope, Where Are You

Where are you, Hope?
I have been longing
For your deceiving presence
You have left me alone
In a pool of sadness


Where are you, Hope?
I have missed you so---
I have longed for your touch,
For your false embrace


Hope, where art thou?
You have left me here
In a desert of loneliness
I am surrounded
By an abundance
Of nothingness


You have left me
In the ocean
Of self-resentment,
You have left me here
Alone


Because of you, Dear Hope
I long for hunger
For the food I have
Is polluted;
I long for thirst,
For I have drowned
In muddy waters


Hope, Come back
Return to me what I've lost,
What you've stolen