Meeting Hopelessness - A Different Perspective

What if hopelessness isn't your enemy, but a misunderstood friend with wings hidden beneath her fear? This BBC Upload featured poem invites you to completely reimagine one of our most avoided emotions.
We spend so much energy running from hopelessness, but what if staying with it reveals something unexpected? What if it's actually carrying the key to our freedom?

If you're avoiding difficult emotions, afraid of sitting with pain, or curious about finding wisdom in unexpected places - this poem on hopelessness might shift your perspective entirely. Sometimes the very thing we fear most is what sets us free.
A gentle reminder that even our most challenging emotions have gifts to offer when we're brave enough to truly meet them.

For:
Anyone avoiding difficult emotions • People in dark moments • Those curious about surrender • Anyone seeking wisdom in pain

Words and Spoken by Jacky Power. Music by Clavier Clavier from Pixabay.

Transcript

Just wait until you meet hopelessness.

No,

I promise.

It's not a threat.

You just don't know her beauty because you haven't met her yet.

Yes,

I know that she's your acquaintance,

But you always run away.

Instead,

I'd invite you to see what happens when you stay.

You think she'd drag you down and anchor you to the floor,

That you'd never rise again,

A thought I know that you abhor.

But look closer at her face now.

See what messages she brings.

Beneath her fear you try to flee,

She carries a pair of wings.

For when you get to know her,

Really look her in the eye.

She'll be showing you what to let go of to really allow yourself to fly.

Those things that you're so sure of that you think will always stay the same.

She'll show you that through surrender you can learn to use your pain.