Hope is Merely Fear With a Poor Choice of Lipstick

"I am exhausted with mornings with their false pretenses and promises, and wonder what it would take to stop it from decorating itself with silver and gold and light and lies, and merely let us be the honest suicide candidates, who see every bright start to a day and know the hypocrisy ready to unravel as a brilliant bright day."   Every morning we wake up with an array of feelings racing inside us, conflicting emotions, from fury to peace, from exhaustion to exuberance. And depending on what we focus on, our day takes on that trajectory - which merely means our life finds a direction in our daily choice.   We can start being a Jackson Pollock painting, splattered with every color and hue, but something inside us picks one color and runs with it. Do we celebrate life - or hunt it down to shoot it point-blank, is merely that perchance choice, of a perchance emotion. We are left to regret at leisure.   But what of those whose choice everyday is the same dismal refraction of life, when the shining truth of possibilities is always seen as chimera, and life seems to be a dark rabbit hole teeming with despair and cul de sacs.   Depression ensues, suicidal tendencies set in. All the love and support of the world needs to be called in. Because, then, lives are at stake.   If you liked this poem, consider listening to these other poems which talk of despair - <ul><li><a href='https://open.spotify.com/episode/54S3zn7pmxDrtppTzqbDtk?si=upDilV6ZSu2fm9JsRAtlxg&utm_source=whatsapp&dl_branch=1'>Heartbreak</a></li> <li><a href='https://open.spotify.com/episode/5WlZHg8kQ9mqv3uXS3zvGJ?si=NG8M-DoTTV-cagC1bGzd4g&utm_source=whatsapp&dl_branch=1'>Chemo: As I Battle Myself</a></li> <li><a href='https://open.spotify.com/episode/3B2juyhjpg5SchbP97M31r?si=fKhiHBptT6OnBIKpSi8iag&utm_source=whatsapp&dl_branch=1'>How to Hold Love as it Breaks</a></li> </ul> Find other magical things, like a lovely free chapbook of poems, and other resources <a href='https://linktr.ee/UncutPoetry'>here</a>.   Uncut Poetry has started a new Podcast calle