

Hope - A Poem by Eve Sheldon
Hope
by Evelyn Sheldon
It's not all bad.
It's not all:
stares and "sirs"
lack of curves
quiet late-night mirror hate sessions
stupidly hard lessons
about how men see me, and
how they don't.
It's not all:
tears in the shower
having to ask permission to pee from those in power
the crush of years
"never being loved again" fears
the sick shock of, after a day of grace,
coming home and seeing a man's face in the mirror,
and wondering about the woman inside,
an