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This is a marvelous poem, and it is a brave poem. You could have stayed with the theme announced in the first stanza expressing sadness and revealing your pain, and no reader would fault you doing so. But instead you voice H-O-P-E and you follow your model of Creative Writing in which your joy in writing becomes our joy in reading. That's why I call this a brave poem. Its bravery comes from your persistent Interior Life.