There Is No Hope for Those Who Hope Too Much
Hear me
read
the poem as
an MP3 file.
Watch me
read
the poem as
an MP4 file.
Audio and Video Music:
Borderless.
By Aakash Gandhi.
Music free to use
at YouTube.
Copyright by
Nicholas Gordon
T here is no hope for those who hope too much,
H ere to build a world where evils cease,
E ager to embrace a world at peace,
Y earning for Utopia, as such.
E ven so, no truth ought such hope crush,
A s cynicism has the longer lease,
R elying on self-interest to increase,
O ffering a prickly underbrush.
F or hopeless hope has much to recommend it.
T he best need not eviscerate the good.
H ope of "should" can clear a path to "would,"
E ven though it breaks the heart to tend it.
D ragons are the dreamers to defend it,
R esisting blame, as only dragons could,
A ware their role might be misunderstood,
G iven that their dream's best chance might end it.
O n hopeless hope depends all compromise.
N or ought one undermine it, were one wise.
H ere to build a world where evils cease,
E ager to embrace a world at peace,
Y earning for Utopia, as such.
E ven so, no truth ought such hope crush,
A s cynicism has the longer lease,
R elying on self-interest to increase,
O ffering a prickly underbrush.
F or hopeless hope has much to recommend it.
T he best need not eviscerate the good.
H ope of "should" can clear a path to "would,"
E ven though it breaks the heart to tend it.
D ragons are the dreamers to defend it,
R esisting blame, as only dragons could,
A ware their role might be misunderstood,
G iven that their dream's best chance might end it.
O n hopeless hope depends all compromise.
N or ought one undermine it, were one wise.
Copyright by Nicholas Gordon. Free for personal or non-commercial use.
Subscribe to this site on Substack
Subscribe to this site on YouTube
