Glimmer of Hope

There's a shaded light of hope

that pursues a fiction future

in my days of life

within comfortable and pleasant people

who criticize but will not rob me

of anything I hold dear--

fortune, one might say is on my side--

thought I find myself in a similar hole

a jail of sorts locked from all

sides--no money to pay--

but all forms of objects to pay for

the sudden Age of Sophisticated Robbery

an extension to cable companies

when what we see on television

twenty times a week

costs twenty times what I owe

yet there it is one ray of light

poking holes in my reality

a taste of life so, far away--

Love--

so evasive and slippery

when held

if only it would visit

as often as these bills.