If you’re any amount of familiar with my poetry, you’ve probably noticed something. I write about hope a lot. It’s actually kind of the only thing I write about, really.

I write about hope a lot because I’ve always written about hope a lot because I had to. I had to learn how to do it when I was younger or I wouldn’t have survived.

I write about how it feels to keep going after you think everything is over or dead or lost because I couldn’t write about anything else. I didn’t have any other choice.

And I know I wrote an entire book about the trauma and abuse present in the religion of my upbringing, but it just hit me tonight where I learned to write about hope this way.

I learned it from the Bible.