Poetry

Hope Says

by Antonio Machado

Hope says: Someday you will
see her, if you know how to wait.
Despair says:
She is only your bitterness now.
Beat, heart . . . The earth
has not swallowed everything.

-from Times Alone, translation by Robert Bly

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