Endure...and Hope

Ever wondered what keeps us motivated?...To go by our existence without questioning...is it a good salary?... a good job?...a good family?...these are all transitionary...here today, gone tomorrow

The following verses are an attempt at investigating this notion:

Endure...and Hope

Conjecture this incidence which keeps us going
Persevering to Perform, straining to strive
Neither means nor materials cease that foreboding,
Waiting for a chimera, a reason to stay alive
Willingly that do submit themselves to fate
Destiny's puppets, only themselves to instigate
Nothing that could calm their anxious souls
Nothing to fall back, but a vision to extol
Traverse that spiritless voyage untold
While a gleaming sign afar does enfold
The radiance that tells them "now is old"
That journey's concluding, your spirits uphold
That geaming sign is the radiance of HOPE
Saying "For tomorrow's ecstacy endure today's woe"

Every sorrow of today is justified under that pretentious expression called Hope.

Here are what some people have said about hope, though most of them are not in line with my perception of it.

"Hope is tomorrow's veneer over today's disappointment. Evan Esar"

"Change has a considerable psychological impact on the human mind. To the fearful it is threatening because it means that things may get worse. To the hopeful it is encouraging because things may get better. King Whitney Jr."

"While there's life, there's hope. Cicero"

"Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing, the dawn will come. You wait and watch and work: You don't give up.Anne Lamott"