"What is the hope..."

a poem by CA Craig

What is the hope we sought to discover

to unburden from this space?

What is this tangled dream, this quiet whisper

from where we find this thing called grace?

Is this word some prophet’s wisdom

that rings inside the soul?

Is it rather a sweet bird song

a thing familiar- we all know?

It seems that now those sounds and meanings

that flow from tongue on breath,

they are tempered, lost and scattered,

they simply fail to calm and rest.