Lighten up, my new friend says,
Please don’t bring me down.
It’s her first day here, she’s new in town.
Unaware of what awaits,
She wants to play,
She’s at the gate.
I blow her off.
I run away.
She doesn’t get it ,she wants to stay.
Her name is Hope.
Her smile is sunny, she likes to laugh,
She thinks she’s funny.
I don’t want her here.
I want to wallow.
Where I like it, full of sorrow.
But she persists.
She makes me grin.
She builds me, up I cannot win.
Oh well, I think.
I’ll let her stay, just for a while,
Just for today.