Poetic Blueprint

This blog is about all things poetry. I will post my own poetry and write articles about ways for people to write, edit and publish their own poetry. There will be interviews also with poets. There will be poetry tips and words of encouragement also.

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False Hope

Poem by Dana L. Young

Giving false hope should be a crime.

Jumping my heart rate with brief moments of joy.

Thinking that I’m getting something because of the repeated phrase

“One more thing needed then you’ll get it.”

Only to have that hope and joy snatched away in a cruel twist of fate.

False hope is unkind because it forces you to finally be able to exhale and inhale in relief 

Just to have the wind knocked right back out of you. 

With unnecessary strength.

I hate false hope because it’s more fiction than a story, 

More shaky then walking on a rickety bridge

More uncertain then a sheet of ice covering a lake

Daring someone to walk across it.

False hope causes brief hikes of happiness

That quickly turn to sorrow.

And That quick change of emotions 

Is bad for your heart and mind.

So giving false hope should be a crime.

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