#135

Maybe the reason why Hope

was inside Pandora's Box

is because

Humanity glorifies the most trivial

of minute things,

they cling to the moment most fleeting

as if it signified the most impossible,

incomparably longer than eternity,

a matter of the gravest of grave consequence.

As if mere mortals could stand side by side

with beings they were deemed unworthy of,

as if they too were legends,

worthy of being immortalized,

and though long gone,

their tales would surely never be forgotten.

As if their names were always written

in the epithet of eternity,

written in ink

with vastly more glow.

But what's wrong with hoping anyway?

We never know when the last card we draw

when we gamble

might be kissed by Lady Luck,

or when the next turn of the casino slots

might yield the next jackpot.

We will certainly never know—

unless we hope.