Hope is a feeling of expectation for a certain positive thing to happen. It does not always come easy or natural and is often something to be sought and fought for. This collection of poems explores a desire-a need-to find hope in everyday life through pain, peace, even mundane seasons. Living can be joyous, and something good can come out of the pain, the ugly side of life, when past or present trauma yearns for healing. A contemporary piece, Hopeless...