Hope

a poem by Sanal Kumar

Doesn’t our hope
Sometimes,
Appear like that light
Down the horizon

It seemed me so
When once
I took the boat in
The sea of my imagination
And rowed towards the
Source of light
To find treasures of my hope
Fulfilled

I rowed on and on
But only light began to fade,
Until it merged into
The light around

And I found
Nothing was at end.

I had to return back the shore of
My life with my
Vanished hopes
Which sunk into
Oblivion.