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Song: Rise Up by Andra Day

HopeYou looked more ill than ever

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Hope
You looked more ill than ever.

Tears bubbled up
And threatened to spill down my cheeks
As I took in
The sickly,
Bloated figure
That was you.

You looked white as a ghost,
Haunting my heart
As I stepped closer
Sadness grasping hold of me
Like an iron fist
Closing fast around my throat.
I approached the glass tube
You were laid horizontally in,
Your eyes closed
And breathing shallow
Resembling Snow White on her death bed.

I whispered your name,
More a question than anything else
As I could barely recognize you:

"Hope?"

There was no response
Yet still I waited.

And suddenly
Out of the blue
Your eyes
Fluttered open.

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