yet still fair.

Where does one find true hope?
A friend once asked of me.
For a sun-drenched façade without cracks
It will never certainly be.

True hope is not found
in pretenses of idealism.
Rather you can only find this virtue
entrenched in worlds of realism.

Hope is to take all aspects of life
And yet be able to say,
amidst both the comic and the tragic,
“Tomorrow will be a better day.”

“And if tomorrow does not bring
another day to remedy this despair,”
One will still look life in the face
and declare, “Still you are fair.”