In the future, I hope to be truly content.

I hope I have enough to live within my means.

I hope I can still appreciate the mundane parts of life.

I hope I can form meaningful connections.

I hope I can find love.

I hope that I can keep on hoping.

• • •

In the past, I wished my future well.

I wished to maintain a sense of wonder a sense of awe.

I wished that life would always leave a way.

In the past, I was naive.

I could not have known what the future held,

yet I know I would not want hatred to control.

I could not have known.

If only I knew.

If only.