*This is me saying the pros and cons through shakespeare's, and my eyes alike, of what hope vs hopelessness can do. It's not alway great for the mind to hope and fail, but it is ALWAYS better for the heart to hope than not to. So you decide if you would rather hurt your mind with failed dreams or your heart with none at all...* -On my Quizzy Account as Well :)
Hamlet's version remade. Brilliant Shakespeare's To Be or Not To Be? Perhaps I could have named my poem To Dream or Not To Dream...but that is the question ;)... -SRD2016 Sarah R. Dyer's original poem based off of Shakespeare's To Be or Not To Be?
To Hope or Not To Hope?
To hope, or not to hope: that is the question:
Whether ‘tis healthier in the mind, or braver to suffer
The light and foolishness that feed your weapon’s mouth,
The people, and dreams that bring you down you could kill with a simple end. The end of hope, killing your dreams.
No hope; and by feeding it we end.
The heart-ache and empty souls
That flesh is heir to, ‘tis not to be consumed
Devoutly to be wished. To die, to hope.
To hope: perchance to dream; ay, there’s the mistake!
For in the hope of faith what dreams may come,
When we have faithfulness to dream we shall fall,
Must give us pause: There’s the respect
That makes you break, from hope above all.
For who would bear the beatings, and embezzling?
The oppressor’s wrong, the proud man contumely,
The pangs of despised hope and dreams, and justice’s delay,
The insolence of naivety and abusive power,
The tolerant merit of the unworthy take,
With hope might he himself his quietus make,
With a harsh break of faith and light? That the heart shall not bare.
To fight and rebuild under a faithless word,
But that the dread of something other than hopelessness...
The undiscovered land of Pride from whose bourn,
No dreams may return, filled with reality and success
And makes us rather humble the ills that fell
Than fly to another that we may work for?
Thus state of the mind does break us all;
And thus the native hue of resolution
Is sicklied over with the pale cast of mind and thought,
And enterprises of great hope and dreams
With this regard their currents turn awry,
And lose the name of action. --Failure you now!
The great God! God of faith
Be all my sins and failures remembered!
-By Sarah Dyer
*This is me saying the pros and cons through shakespeare's, and my eyes alike, of what hope vs hopelessness can do. It's not alway great for the mind to hope and fail, but it is ALWAYS better for the heart to hope than not to. So you decide if you would rather hurt your mind with failed dreams or your heart with none at all...*
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