You may ask
What is hope made of, anyway?
How does it manage to rise up,
how does it bear us across
so many empty, lonely days?

It’s an important question
because whatever it is,
it’s not made of
all these things that fall,
all these things that fail

If you can see
what hope is made of,
you can also tell how it works,
how it is anchored in a world
where all the light in this world comes from,
how after all the turbulence
has come and thrashed and gone,
it still glows.

©Wendy Mulhern
January 10, 2019