Not What I Hoped

06 November 2025

https://poems.culturing.net/2025/11/not-what-i-hoped/

Time passes, a new day follows
an old one, one wonders
and then one stops wondering.
Somehow I stood in the gap
that spans the distance
between who she is
and who she would have to be.
I see clearly now.
Something has changed,
but not what I hoped would change.