Even the most graceful beast senses it,
not always aware yet never part…
of
Fear presses them into corners
and like the hopeless they give in,
not allow anyone near, help
them.
Apprehended, but don’t they
see, both
is an illusion, a wedding
in a fairytale set up for the guests;
There is no world without hope, and fervently
it gives us the only set of crutches
we’d ever need.
Thus the hopeless are deaf and
the helpless blind, and both
of them can find the path
holding hands, follow the smallest
light.