Lend Me Your Hope – PLEASE!

Some days, we dwellers feel that life’s too difficult to want to live another day. It doesn’t mean we’re suicidal. We’ve just lost hope, at least for awhile. We need to borrow some from you. But, you, friends give invisibly disabled people hope.

Borrowed Hope

Lend me your hope for awhile.

I seem to have mislaid mine.

Lost and hopeless feelings accompany me daily.

Pain and confusion are my companions.

I know not where to turn.

Looking ahead to the future times

does not bring forth images of renewed hope.

I see mirthless times, pain-filled days,

and more tragedy.

Lend me your hope for awhile,

I seem to have mislaid mine.

Hold my hand and hug me;

listen to all my ramblings.

I need to unleash the pain and let it tumble out.

Recovery seems so far distant;

the road to healing a long and lonely one.

Stand by me; offer me your presence.

Your ears and your love

acknowledge my pain. It is so real and ever present.

I am overwhelmed with sad and conflicting thoughts.

Lend me your hope for awhile,

A time will come when I will heal

and I will lend my renewed hope to others.

© Eloise Cole, Scottsdale, AZ

My thanks to Jo Ann, from Sunroom, for bringing this poem to my attention! It spoke so strongly to me that I just had to share it with you. —Connected Carole.

So, observers, can you lend us your hope?

• Sit with us awhile.
  • We (probably) don’t need advice, but your presence feels so good—even if we snap at you.
• Follow up in a few days.
  • That tells us you really do care.
• Email or Facebook us.
  • Then we know you’re thinking of us.
• Send us an encouraging card.
  • That brightens our day and says you care enough to invest time in making it or money in buying it.

You may never know how much sharing your hope with us helps us keep going. Remember, friends give invisibly disabled people hope.