Hope

I saw hope once
It was bright yellow, like a sunflower on a hot summer day.
I knew it was there,
For it glowed like a light showing the way.
But even so,
After all my excitement, it let me down.
I couldn't understand,
It tasted bitter and hollow.
It was like after all my dreaming and wishing,
My world had come crashing down before me.
And there was my rival, standing high,
And growing stronger with the hope.
And growing stronger with the hope I had lost.