Hope - an exchange

Hope is a creeper
doing well on a dry tree -
an oxymoron.
- Max

Hope is a small cloud
in the desert that speaks of
rain to the Bedouin.
- Alaka

Two green leaves pushing
out from a crack in a wall.
Hope lasts forever.
- me

A cute kitten be-
ing torn to pathetic shreds:
hope crushed by slyness.
- Max