Not Just A Four Letter Word

Hope

A four letter

Which seems

So distanced

And foreign

At times.

Like

An alien world

Where life is

So strange

To me.

As

I struggle

With self-esteem

And self-confidence.

Knowing

Within myself

A person exist.

Full

Of compassion

And understanding

Of other's needs.

Despite

A past filled

With violence

And hatred.

Reviews

[Matthew Kult]

Hello Therisa,

Stay strong and proud. Forever Beautiful

Always,

Matthew
A.

[therisa]

Thank you, Matthew, but there are days, which I find myself, hiding away, inside my apartment.

[Matthew Kult]

No reason to hide, if they can't accept then they are the ones who should hide.

[therisa]

Matthew, I suffer from chronic depression, which isn't always treatable with meds.

[jacob erin-cilberto]

sometimes we do feel like a stranger in our own life...a stranger in our own skin...

but despite the environment and those violent influences...there could be a peaceful us inside...there is hope in this poem.

nice stuff.

[therisa]

Thank you, Jacob. I eed to remember this, the next time, I put myself down.