Hope

To the girl whose heart has been broken many a time without reconciliation.

Everytime someone walks down the street toward me, I hope it's you. Everytime I get a call on my phone, I hope it's your name on caller I.D. When I dream about you, I hope you dream about me too. And when I look at the bright moon, feeling lonely and wishing you were here, I hope you are looking at it too and thinking of me; missing me. And when I realize it couldn't be, my hopes get crushed like thin glass, broken as easily as a single thread. Without any defense to save me or my heart. Broken jaggedly in two, never able to come back together. Don't ask me why I hope so much, it's just something I grow to feel whenever you are near. Hope that maybe sometime something will happen. But hope is all that keeps my fragile self from breaking down permanently. Even just a sliver of it can get me through. Just barely. Just know that I will be waiting in the wings, wishing on a dream that you will realize that I am here and always have been. I will wait for that day when the realization hits you as hard as a bullet, that we were meant to be even though it may seem wrong in other people's minds. It doesn't matter as long as we have each other. I watch every shooting star glide past my window and wish with all my heart that you will think of me. I then realize that it is just an airplane passing in the night sky. At least it gave me more hope. For a little while. Just know that I am right here, hoping, waiting. For you.

"I will always hope for a better tomorrow, a brighter sun, one less lonely, aching person. For their hurt is something I understand. Just never give up your hope. Know that someone is always with you whether you see it or not. Look out your window at the infinite beauty and realize that there is someone out there that made it for you in times like these. Let the stars show you that even when its dark and cold out, there will always be a beautiful, radiant light to give passion, to make you feel like something. Never give up hope, in whatever you do, you may not get the ending you want, but it's something you can grow stronger from. And honey know, that whenever you call on me, I'll be there. I love you."

To the person that I dedicated this to, you know who you are and these words are as true as they can be. They are from my heart. I was thinking of only you when I was writing this. Again, and again, Don't ever give up hope and I love you.

Keller