Love  and Hope Love and Hope  In love springs hope eternal in my mind Though dreaming such is a diversion From routine's ways Yet in love I seek my progress To escape this dull dying and - Seeking love's discovery Come alive again In love is my salvation escaping from deadly Descent into boredom's banality Here in this place of passion regenerated I come alive Reborn in the youth of life Each sound a storm of living Each gentle touch a surge of creativity And in such love I am alive  Again In love, and only here There is hope Rejuvenation In the pursuit of life's renewal In children and in passion Of discovering each other In the loving of intimacy Throwing off the shroud of convention In seeking hope in love's heart And in so being Hope is love ©1999 Michael David Coffey