Hoping Against Hope
We're accustomed to seeing crustaceans
crabs and lifeless jellyfish along these shores
starfish, excite our alliterations
but any man bereft fleeing bloody wars.
Scooping up a dead child or two, a wife
yes, images of this kind haunt our psyche
thinking of it makes us re-evaluate life
every night, let's be thankful to God Almighty.
It wasn't our child on that shoreline washed
hoping for a place to find a sanctuary
in a small rowboat hoping, against hope (lost)
prayers might be answered just temporarily.
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