the cure

[ellajam]

i could have written "these things that lead to desire and desire leads to hope" by confusing it i provoke you to make sense of it anyway.

Sure, if you want a stopper in your poem to let the reader wander off to guess at what you mean and possibly return (if they haven't already lost interest) that's your prerogative. I'm not a fan of the double desire above but I'd bet there's a better way.