"SPARK OF HOPE"A blog just would not come. My mind was open, moving, but nothing came. I wanted to blog yesterday about that spark of hope that had no business being in me, but was there when I awoke from my last drunk. I couldn't find the words. Now I have found the words in the following form:
SPARK OF HOPE
Only three years - brought three deaths: mental, emotional, spiritual
The body disappearing too - like a woman in a vanishing act
So quickly like the seven point zero earthquake
Leaving behind ruin, destruction and devastation
Liquor robbed her of all inside save her life
Left her zombie-like, dancing on her liquid legs
Then she would drop and pray
No thought, no wish, no expectation of a better day
Left her job, loving wife and mother - all stolen away
Could not be saved by doctor, religious, friend or self
Filled with despair, self-destruction all around
In this gloom a last drunk began, a final plunge into oblivion
Another day - it dawned just like the ones before
The morning sun, a knife, cutting into her sodden brain
But something new! A sense! A thought! What's there?
This could not be. There was no way. But there it was.
A smallest spark of hope as if from nowhere now appearing.
How? Unknown! But know she did - somehow - all would be well.
And it was!
Prayer Girl
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14 comments:
Oh I just loved this PG! This is like one of those sayings that should go on a plaque up on the wall! Just the smallest spark of hope was all it took for me too. No matter how dark it is today...there is always hope for a better tomorrow! Thanks for sharing your artistic touch :o)
Very Cool
Thanks
Very touching, well written and exactly what we all pray for - that mysterious spark.
great post
and it was...a great end of the chapter...smiles.
lovely poem. thanks for sharing it :)
I'm a believer that we never know where that spark may come from, so reach out to someone every day!
That feeling that "all will be well" no matter what is what I found in Alanon. No matter what. What a gift...
Namaste
I know what you mean about that spark, I have no idea how in the world it stayed lit...
Sometimes I think it was the prayers of others that kept it going, not in me but because I was always TRULY loved, even though I didn't realize it.
Moves me deeply. Thanks PG, thanks so much
I am so glad that you have that hope today.
This is just it, I cannot describe to people that moment, but it had a lot to do with hope and peace...you describe it here brilliantly and with eloquence that I cannot find...thank you!!!
love you,
gabi
Just beautiful. And that is that. ♥
You are just sooo Brilliant!
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