There is Hope

My thoughts
sifting though my hands
drizzling onto the sand
becoming an ever-changing
perception of my life - or lives.
My life, which conjuncts so often
and so closely with the lives of others,
the many lives I’ve seen and heard tell of
point to one thing -
an unnecessary tragedy of existence
which must stop.
And there is hope now that it can stop
If we can continue to all listen
and change and help where we can.
Then it will finally not have been in vain
all this suffering. We will suffer for our children
That our children won’t suffer
And we will finally grow.


Marque Brill