Poetry: Hope is often hopeless, in its falseness

Love never lets you down, but sometimes hope can let you down, if you place your faith in a false hope.

@Nakitakona Yes, faith in God never fails, but faith placed on other things often does fail. Faith placed in a horse winning a race is misguided faith.

@innertalks But faith in God never fails.

Thanks. I was not sure how people would see my poem here. I am saying that love is always greater than hope.

@innertalks I forgot all of it but there is a saying when you have love you can let go of hope but keep it on a shelf to remind you of the love you now have. Well, it was something like that.

@RasmaSandra Thanks. Yes, that saying certainly would seem to agree with my point too. When we really have real love, we can let go of hope. We often then keep hope on the shelf of our minds, and revisit it every time that we move away from the love, in our hearts.

The need for hope actually spoils my day. I have always wanted certainty. Hope is a form of false satisfaction that actually acts to keep you away from the highest form of love. I am not interested in life. I am interested in something more than life, and hope is not enough to get me there. Only the highest pinnacle of love will do for me. I do not want to understand life from a lower position in love, sitting on hope's lower platform.

@Shiva49 You speak well for most people, and for the value of hope in their lives. A lot of people need such a crutch to get them through the pains of life, a hope for something better. I speak for me only. I have no use for hope, as it could lead me down a garden path, with nothing at the end. I was surprised the other weekend by the reading from the bible at church. It said that there has always been violence in heaven too, not peace, so a lot of people might be wrong about their ideas of a peaceful heaven. Matthew, chapter 11, verse 12 from the Bible says this: “And from the days of John the Baptist until now the kingdom of heaven suffereth violence, and the violent take it by force." There seems to be violent wars going on in Heaven, all of the time, then too. "As above, so below," an old saying goes.

@innertalks I feel hope is the first step to hold on. in fact, a crutch that there is always light down the tunnel. Hope is certain too that kept us going right through generations after generations.. According to me love is esoteric and a mirage in this world of ours. Nothing wrong though to aim higher - when we aim for a mountain we can ascend a hill in the least. We have to tide over life here and there are some crutches we have to hold on to and I feel hope is one of the crucial ones for us to look for better days. Now we have hope that things will be back to normal soon after this pandemic and that makes us to "hang in there".

That's all my own work. Somebody else on mylot wrote about hope being very important in our life, to inspire us to keep going. I didn't entirely agree with him, so I wrote this poem, as my response to his article. Here is his article here: (It was well-written too, but I like to write from other angles, not accepting what others have written point-blank.)