Hope never dies

It’s always alive

Within a heart that’s true

To my vision of you

And me, together

Again, forever re-

United with my

Heart bound to the Beloved

And sworn True to you

Sharing all that love

Arising from you and me

With the world, for the

Glory and healing of all

Who dwell above

And below —

Always forsaken

By those who don’t understand

I can handle it, now —

I am bound to the Land

And God around

Within, above and below

Creator’s Light shines within me —

May it ever be so.

— Stephanie Ann Barrows lives in Lawrence.