When I am Feeling Hopeful by ALison Haythornthwaite (Theme: When I am Hopeful)

Alive & awakened, crispy linen shirt 

Surrounded with salt air particles

Journeyed to Mount Everest, K2 & Kangchenjunga

Jumping off with a gently bump to earth

Swimming force 10, rode the waves, still alive

I am Alive!

Discomfort morphing to a mill pool

Breathe, breathe, breathe … normal again.

Hopeful is glorious when hope is lost

Sunlight emitting like a volcano from every cell in my body

Discoveries, beginnings, again, again, again, again, again

Bang: thunderclap of freedom

Awakening glimpse when the spear is not driven in my eye

Laughter rides above mountains; universal

I am laughter, belly, chuckle, contagious, spontaneous

Pushing laughter out, till I am

Soul searching for hope, questing, never giving up

Balancing the thread rope, loose not to snap

Boom, another trial, test, hoping … it is gone

Boom, another trial, test, hoping … it is fucking gone

Boom, another trial, test, hoping … not a-fucking-gain

Boom … this time a difference, though micro … the lightbulb has sparked

Spear in eye is dragged back forth

Pain is removed to disempower vocabulary

Hope is on horizon

Disability, illness is not the end

Strength, courage, fighting, my spirit is here now, right now!

Hopeful is outside freezing, standing, discomfort free, pipe in hand

Sea particles surround me