HOPE RINGS ON

We strike the harp 
in the ruins;
sing refrains in the storm 
that will sink us, 
we sleep in the shadows 
cast by angel’s wings 
and we live with the light 
that has already burned us,
because hope is a bell, 
it rings and rebels and rebels,
hope is a sparrow singing, 
hope is a criminal child.

By Heidi Turner