Where is our hope?

Where Should we Place our Hope?

(A non-rhyming poetic answer)

In America, many people put their hope in politics
"If MY SIDE of the aisle were in power...
Things would be better"

But that hope is fading
Both sides have been in power
And many things have gotten worse

More and more, people are seeing
We can't put our hope in the elephants
We can't put our hope in the donkeys
They vote yes to themselves

They only see sin on the other side
They don't see the sin in their own seats

So what?
Do we turn back to religion?
Our old saviors?

But we left them for a reason
We left because of their own violence
Their own scandals. Their own greed.

We left them not only for a reason
But for reason

Should we turn back to that?

Science can't let us down? Can it?
1+1=2. I can trust that.
But can I HOPE in that?

Should we place our hope in numbers?
Meaningless numbers? Without interpretation?
In science, which gives both balm and bomb?

Truth is, we abandoned science with WWI
Because as we won our hope in it was lost
We realized its winning was our failing

So we grow hard
We trust no other
We turn to self

I can trust myself... right?
No! I know myself too well
To trust myself too much

Where is our hope?
If not politics or religion?
If not science or self?

Until we are hopeless
We are hopeless

Let go of your allegiances
Lose your religion
Let numbers be numbers
Look yourself in the mirror

Look up to the heavens
Look down at the manger
Look long at the cross

See Pilate & Herod
See Caiaphas
See the science of torture
See yourself among the scoffers

Lose all hope

Look into the tomb
Last place you'd expect to find hope
And see it empty

Find the King of kings
Find the end of all sacrifices
Search the evidence
See for yourself

Hope springs eternal
In the God-man's breast