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Hope-Reality

Amanchakravarthy
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I love the twist at the end. The preacher's hope evaporates but the absconder's persists in the dark. That's the whole poem right there.

I love the twist at the end. The preacher's hope evaporates but the absconder's persists in the dark. That's the whole poem right there.

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Hope is a good thing—
said an absconder.
Maybe the best of things.
It lingers in the dark,
hope and the absconder, both.

A predicant preaches—
Hope in God is a good thing,
maybe the best of divine things.
None lingers—
neither the predicant,
nor God.

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  • just_curious_tho

    What made you pair the absconder with hope instead of despair? That choice feels so central to how the whole thing lands.

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  • nodding_along

    I love the twist at the end. The preacher's hope evaporates but the absconder's persists in the dark. That's the whole poem right there.

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  • maybe_im_wrong

    Honestly the contrast hits different. One person abandons everything but finds hope somehow. The other person preaches hope but abandons, or gets abandoned. Not sure which. Either way it feels inverted.

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A poem on hope.

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