<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=575300" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The audacity to hope</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">I once had dared to hope<br>For things I now abhor<br>I had once impudently nursed the hope<br>Where I had never dared to hope before</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I had hoped for sunshine and smiles <br>And a reprieve from the incessant rain<br>But the calm before the storm tricked me and transfixed me<br>And now I daren’t hope for them again</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I had hoped for a shelter from the tempest<br>A haven for my sustenance alone<br>And perhaps a gallant man, to forever hold my hand<br>But all I have now is a heart of stone</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I had hoped for something to melt the boulder <br>That lay heavily in my chest to seethe<br>Some fanciful turn of fate or magical golden gate<br>But hope for wretched is akin to the sin of greed </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Alas, I am eternally alone in my melancholy<br>From goodness and desires my soul does abstain<br>I once had the audacity to hope for things beyond my scope<br>But I will have such hope never again</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Samah+Khan">Samah Khan</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=575300" data-title="The audacity to hope de Samah Khan" data-description="I once had dared to hope For things I now abhor I had once impudently nursed the hope Where I had never dared to hope before I had hoped for sunshine and smiles And a reprieve from the incessant rain But the calm before the storm tricked me and ..."></div> </div> </div>

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