Hello! I had this written out a long time ago, and just now found it, so I thought I'd throw it up here and see what you all think of it. I'm not much for poems myself, and I don't think many people are. All I ask is that if you really don't like it, just don't review it, okay? In other words, no flames! I'd appreciate any advice you could give me on writing better poems, though, and any praise you can muster is always accepted! With that said, enjoy!

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In the wake of the storm, the tears of sorrow flowed

So strongly these tears flowed they created a river,

A river of regrets that no man tried to slow

The men ignored the river, for it got no bigger.

As the days tolled on, the grief and pain of men added to the water

The men denied the river's existence, and continued to live on in eternal pain

Everything made the river overflow; the stealing, lies, and slaughter

Yet, the men had become numb and so they remained the same.

The land that the water flowed onto became barren and dry

The men finally woke up, and noticed the river, but it was too late

They couldn't stop the flow of the river, hard as they may try;

It seemed their ignorance had sealed their fate.

Then, one day, a man clad in red appeared

He fought through the grief and regrets of the land

Once the doomed men saw him, their vision cleared,

And they joined together to take a stand.

The river of regret dried up, and washed away

The men moved on; finally able to face their losses, and cope

The man in red filled their land with the rivers of yesterday

When asked his name, he simply replied, "I am Hope."

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Well, there it is, love it or hate it. I know it's kind of short, but poems aren't meant to be all that long, are they? Well, except for, like, the Illiad, but I'm not here to write an epic! Anyway, I'll shut up and go back to do what I do best, which is not writing poems! Review, please, if you would be so kind!