Hope
is for a smile.
Not the cheery smile
of The medication is excellent these days
but the broad smile
of You can go home now, everything is fine.
Hope is getting up and checking yourself
knowing that one day soon you’ll be worse
– but not today?
Hope is where you find it.
Vitamins, keto, exercise,
mitochondria, fruit flies.
Some days Hope is a town in Arkansas
(motto: A slice of the good life ).
And that’s a very long way from you are.
Devon based poet and musician Marc Woodward’s most recent collections are A Fright of Jays (Maquette Press), Hide Songs (Green Bottle Press) and The Tin Lodes (co-written with Andy Brown – Indigo Dreams Publishing). www.marcwoodwardpoetry.blogspot.com www.Facebook.com/marcwoodwardartist