Hope Withheld
Opposed to the majority, an outsider, a rebel seeking to take advantage of the indifferent Punishing the uncompromising, withholding optimism celebrating the guilty, convicting the innocent Ignoring the journey stifling fresh approach constricting eternity into a well behaved box Applying limits learned from youth never allowing entrance into the door that locked Eyes that hold like a piercing, accusing finger focused on dark, dreary nights alone A mouth down twisting and angry ready to ignite the echoes of a fiery tone Refusal to change until all that is left is an abundance of sand in a hot, dry, desert ending in an unfinished symphony of bittersweet regrets that never obtained an audience