Third Edit: Lost Dreams

[Elizazile]

Hi! I like the personification of hope as well as the imagery of both the migration and maggots burrowing into meat only to return later. One thing that confused me a bit was the "perhaps" starting the last stanza suggested an alternative to the suggestions of the first two, but the third option does not seem markedly different from the second two. Migrating south just for winter and burrowing only to re-hatch both seem to me like they could also be versions of 'staying silent' and going 'unnoticed.'  Also, while I do immediately like the choice of personifying hope, it makes me wonder about hope's motivations within the poem, particularly for burrowing into rotten meat!

Lost Dream

what has happened to our hope?

did it try to migrate south
for winter
on a broken wing?

or did it burrow
deep into rotten meat
only to hatch anew?

perhaps it’s not even lost
staying silent
and unnoticed as a shadow