Hope's Elegy is a performance piece written in response to my personal philosophies, thoughts and feelings around the greatest of human conceptual creations, hope. The theme of hope means a lot to me... I honestly don't think I would be here without the strong and stubborn drive to hope in my personality.
That may sound somewhat melodramatic, but hope takes on an added dimension when you suffer either a chronic health condition (as I do now) or mental health issues (as I have in the past). When life seems like an unending sufferance, the will to hope is the balm that heals the mind. So, I ask you humbly to take the time to watch the Youtube video reading and short film above.
Hope is what gets you through times you'd simply rather not be awake or conscious. Everyone needs hope to inspire them to find the place they want to be in life, but those with chronic conditions literally need hope to survive day to day.
I will let the poem speak for itself, but to wrap this up I will say that in a wider context, hope is the underlying human condition that will save us from ourselves.
If humans didn't have hope, there would be no reason to strive for a better world or to learn from the mistakes of the past.
For me, this is the underlying strength and importance of hope, and I felt its transformative nature first-hand when I recovered from severe clinical depression. The power of holding on to hope during that period was what kept me from descending into a self-destructive cycle of substance abuse.
Thanks for reading 🙂🌿
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