This is My Hope

This is My Hope

To see beauty where others see faults;
To see nature beneath concrete vaults;
To hear birds chirping and twittering songs
‘Midst a city’s glossy and glittering throngs;
To find heart-warming smiles and laughters
Bouncing off crumbling walls and rafters;
To seek kindness and sincerity
‘Midst greediness and severity;
To befriend some oddball nothing guy
When I could have just avoided his eye;
To find friendship in a proffered hand;
To share a meal with a beggars’ band;
To drink deeply from a wishing well;
To never know a tormentor’s hell;
To hit on a sexy city girl
And she takes me for a spin and a whirl;
To smell the lilies of the valley,
Pick them for the girl I plan to marry;
To taste the joys of a rustic life
And win the love of a country wife;
To fly oceans in a silver plane
And never, never to see land again
Till I see my free, my native shores
Rid of petty tyrants and their whores.