Hope and Despair

For "Prodigy: Youth Writers' Competition", about finding out that you are never alone.

Living alone in the sweeping darkness
With closed eyes, reliving bittersweet memories
Bearing with unbearable thoughts and feelings
Torturing yourself with the taste stuck on your tongue,
The flavor of friendship, love, and betrayal

Forgetting your early promises with the moon
Shutting out reality when hurt slices you open
Living through the piercing memories of betrayal

Silently opening your eyes with the beat of dawn
Fragments of dreams flying out through your window
Confronting reality halfway to your home
Carefully touching the diffuse shape of hope

And when awakening from your despair's dark thoughts
You will once more be watching the world with bright eyes
Realising again the meaning of believing while loving,
Seeing the meaning behind your shining hope,
Which is only there to show you, with strong love,
That as long as you believe, you are never truly alone