Hope is...

Hope is what you see...
when mist shreds the light.

Hope is what you smell...
when lotus glows in stench.

Hope is what you taste...
when hunger kills within.

Hope is what you hear...
when sound grows dim.

Hope is what you touch...
when tears flicker bright.

Hope is what you feel...
when soul loses its sheen. 

Belief or knowledge?

Belief has often brought great results in my life where knowledge failed.

I believe in the power of unknown more than the known.

Wikipedia defines Belief as "the psychological state in which an individual holds a proposition or premise to be true" and Knowledge as "a familiarity with someone or something, which can include facts, information, descriptions, or skills acquired through experience or education".

There is a vast and yet a subtle difference between the two, I believe.

Belief has taken me places I never imagined I could go. 

Yet it's been a hard one to pin down.

Sometimes I have it, sometimes I lose it. 

And then I find it again.

It comes and goes.

Knowledge on the other hand, has only taken me upto a point.

But it stays with me.

Like a comfortable blanket I can pull out whenever I need it.

A constant companion I can fall back on.

I can add more to it.

Belief survives without knowledge, not the other way round.

Knowledge with belief is magic.

It has been for me.