You are a wave

Your efforts rise from a distance

You come closer

And closer still

Something happens

Your efforts loose momentum

The wave bends over

Comes falling down

Crashes on the shore

Destroys the castle on the shore

The small castle of hope

All hope is gone

It’s been destroyed

The water recedes

The effort is gone

It took the hope with it

Someone else’s wave comes

But yours doesn’t come back

Not now

Not ever

The wave and so is the hope