I Hope

May you live, and be content. 
 
I hope you can hold on when you feel like quitting, 
I hope you can keep fighting as you keep living. 
I hope you can keep hoping and keep believing. 
I hope you can accept losses, 
and expect them, as you do wins. 
I hope your days can mean more, 
I hope your nights can be more peaceful, 
and quieter, and warmer, and beautiful. 
I hope you can give this life your all; 
I hope you can dare to do 
the things you always wanted to. 
I hope you can chase your dreams, 
relentlessly, and O', may you create! 
I hope you can be bold enough to risk, 
I hope you can fear nothing. 
I hope you hold no grudge, and love all, 
I hope you can forgive and forget easy. 
I hope you can forgive yourself, too,  
understand yourself, love yourself, 
and learn patience, with first yourself. 
I hope you can find some happiness, 
find true love, and overcome sadness. 
I hope you can allow yourself to cry 
when you feel overwhelmed. 
I hope you can expel, sometimes, 
from your deepest and darkest pits, 
and I hope you ever feel 
no shame in whatever comes out.  
And I hope, when you laugh,  
you can laugh your heart out. 
I hope you can live exhaustively. 
I hope you can close your eyes, 
each day, and be content 
with sunrises and sunsets. 

And, O', we are more 
than we think and know— 
I hope you can see that 
(or at least, someday). 

©Benie_Langat_2021. 

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