Love & Hope

By Bill Cottringer

What drives love?

Hope does!

What drives hope?

Love Does!

Does this make sense?

It doesn’t have to,

It does, just because.

Love shows hope

And hope shows love.

What are we loving for?

What are we hoping for?

A good and happy ending

To our part in life.

Oddly we already have it,

Just don’t know or see it.

That is what love and hope

Are both really for—

To help us cope,

And help us see past

What we are looking at;

We can’t really see

Something so free.

The key you see,

Is letting it be.

Together love and hope,

Fulfill our only real desire,

To know and love God;

Commit to this love and hope

And you are letting it be,

Setting love and hope free

With your graceful charity,

So life has its happing ending

For you, me and others to see.