Acrostic · Hope
H-O-P-E (an Acrostic)
Hold on — not to how it was,
Only to what it still could be;
Plant something small in the wreckage,
Expect it, against the odds, to grow.
Original poem © QuillOak — free for personal use.
“H-O-P-E (an Acrostic)” by The QuillOak Editors — quilloak.com/poems/hope-acrostic
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