What can you say to them?
Once you realize you will never see them again
What can you say after you realize
That they’ve saved our home
But will never return
All you can say is thank you,
As they take God’s hand
And rise up into the stars
I don’t know if this will ever help anyone
It’s three stanzas
It doesn’t use any big words
It doesn’t even rhyme
But what is hope
A word
A concept
Four letters
A sound
It’s so much more
What should you say
To a hero’s family
When you can hear the anxiety
Rumbling like distant thunder
So that the gusty storm cloud of grief
Does not rain down
And drown them?
Tell them of hope
Even when it seems the world is
Shrouded in a red haze of chaos and anarchy
Hope simmers in our hearts
Hope is our savior because from hope
Comes change
Hope can be simple
Keeping a smile on our faces
Guiding each other to persevere
Hope is a candle
Lit in a window
On a moonless night
So sing into the sun-split clouds
Sit up and pray in the darkest midnight hours
Close your eyes and see that word etched in fire
Because from hope comes change
We must remember
That instead of smoking ruins
Because of brave souls
Laying down their lives
The clashing of metal
In air thick with heat, sweat and dust
We now can take for ourselves
Flora fresh in a glorious sheen
Water like pearls kissed by the sunrise
The Arcadian laughter of children
With the purest ambitions
It can be more than a fantasy
An illusion
A daydream
Let the ember of hope not fade away
And cherish the fallen and all those lost
In our struggle for peace in your memory
Never let them go
God knows what is in every heart
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