Hope

Hope is but a trojan horse,
unsuspecting we let it in
in strife, in pain,in times we are down,
it betrays and wrecks from within.

Illusions it casts on the naive mind
with promise of balm,a guiding ray
i stretch my hands to clasp and Lo!
unwavering it floats away.

When despair and sorrow,disappointment and loss
trample upon my gullible heart
it hides in deepest trenches,lost
i'm the prey on whom the demons dart