Cheers to Broken Dreams and Shattered Hope’s

By Madeline Ileleji

Photo by CHUTTERSNAP on Unsplash

Let’s howl at the wind with all our broken pieces

This time we cradling our fall in a light so divine you’d think us godly

Here in the night when all is null and void

Here in the places were we’ve thrived and fallen

Golden pieces, bronze and silver

All we like masterpieces of treasures

 lined in a trophy fashion

I hope you know you are a rocket taking off

Landing and rebuilding 

Like astronauts do on spaceships 

Theres our tide fading into the wild ocean

Theres our smiles broken into fear and tears radiating in mystical joy

Then theres our pain glowing 

like magical drops

We’ve been made yet again

From agony to agony

The charade of life a well lived hope

I hope the master sees us this night

Doing what humans do when all is done and said, 

moving on and letting life take its pace

Our colours are rising, we are divine yet tired and concerned

Right now we are the deepest of joy that twilight brings

We are humans hoping, 

dreaming and loving

Making magic in a night so graceful

Let all that is within shine like diamonds

Shelved behind a glass wall

Ain’t it glorious

Ain’t it priceless

But I hope you know after all the screaming  all that laughter of the dawn

Midnight strikes of fireworks and new Hope’s and dreams

I hope you know

That life continues

It’s just another year

 Yet the cycle is the same

Armour up amidst all the chaos

Today chose to smile

We are not making new Hope’s

We are birthing broken dreams

And mending wounded hearts

A light amidst a year darkened and shaded

We’ve lost, we cried,

we’ve stayed home and we’ve known joy

So……..

To all the broken friendships, broken dreams, and broken hearts

To all the people we’ve said goodbye to 

In death and failed relationships

I hope you know, 

Theres love for you inside you

So cheer up and toast to a new year 

Not for its glamour or the occurrence 

Of already existing crisis

Just toast to the mere cycle of life

To the wisdom of the Creator 

And to mere human genius

Cheers to broken dreams 

And Shattered Hope’s

And cheers to a resilient you