Hope.

 

We live not in its absence

The vision of another world

Where they only count who win

Nor is there need for recompense

Because what happens over there

Is oblivious to this world.

 

We live not in its absence

The hope that this is not

Another nightmare

Being taken for a ride

And that somewhere

We know not where

There is the port of our destination

Where whoever comes to greet us

Does it with open arms.

 

Alfred Grech

09/10/2020.