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My Valley. My Hope.







                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            I’m thirsty, tired, and want to sleep, but I can’t stop right now when I’m so close to my goal.

                                                                                                                                                                                               The sun                                      I see the landscape in the distance and imagine what I will find: rivers, green grass, animals, will to
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            live and hope.

                                                                                                                                                                                               was                                          There must be all of this; otherwise, why would I have gone all this way? I trust what
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            I perceived in my heart; my hope cannot betray me, not now that I am so close to my goal.

                                                                                                                                                                                               setting,                                     I walk and arrive at the promised land. I fall to my knees, screaming.


                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            Where is the green grass? Where is life? Where are the animals?
                                                                                                                                                                                               and my                                       Is my hope dead?



                                                                                                                                                                                               skin was                                     I cry, then I laugh.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            I laugh because this is hope; as long as there is life, there is hope, and I will transform this desert into
                                                                                                                                                                                               sunburned                                    a place full of life.


                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            But does this desert live inside my heart, or is it the world? And can the hope of a single individual
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            make a difference?

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            I can try it.


                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            I will do it.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            This is my hope.                                                          Acrylic
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      i: 16’ by 20’
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