"Hope"

Destiny
Yeatman-Liddell Middle School

"Hope" by Destiny Yeatman-Liddell Middle School This video was taken at the 2012 7GP 7th Grade Poetry Contest Winner Event in St. Louis, MO. Read the poems of every 7GP winner at https://www.7gp.org. The 7th Grade Poetry Foundation (7GP) is transforming young lives and their classrooms through writing.

Hoping that love shall come again
The young relationships that could begin
Being the one to say “I do”
Will make your dreams come true

Hoping you would walk down the aisle
Always the one being criticized
Couldn’t compare all the lies
But instead I was buried behind lies

Hoping you would be the one
Trying to categorize your life
Beating the odds that hit you in the face
Being the one full of disgrace

Hoping you could try again
You can’t always classify
But you can’t have a rainbow
Without a little rain