Hope

Rubiyat is an arabic format that is a quatrain that has the first, second, and fourth lines rhyme. The rhyme scheme is: a-a-b-a. A single stanza can be a poem in itself or multiple stanzas may be joined to create a larger poem.

Rubiyat Poetry

Hope confounds me, it condemns and frustrates,
its empty promises lead me to bitterness; to hate
yet each time I listen, convinced and gullible
I end up regretful, broken and prostrate.

In my quiet moments of contemplation I know
without it my essence can only plateaux
but the ground becomes barren and weak,
the more these unrewarding seeds are sown.

I can't give up; as much as I feel I must
but nor can I believe or surrender my trust
to the unknown tomorrow and all that it holds
knowing as I do, its penchant for the unjust.