Chorus from the Cure at Troy
Human beings suffer. They torture one another. They get hurt and get hard. No poem or play or song Can fully right a wrong Inflicted and endured. History says, Don’t hope On the side of the grave, But then, once in a lifetime The longed-for tidal wave Of justice can rise up And hope and history rhyme. So hope for a great sea-change On the far side of revenge. Believe that a farther shore Is reachable from here. Believe in miracles. And cures and healing wells. Call miracle self-healing, The utter self-revealing Double-take of feeling. If there’s fire on the mountain And lightning and storm And a god speaks from the sky That means someone is hearing The outcry and the birth-cry Of new life at its term. It means once in a lifetime That justice can rise up And hope and history rhyme.
Chorus from the Cure at Troy - meaning Summary
Hope Against Despair
This chorus says that human beings hurt one another and that art cannot simply undo injustice. Even so, it argues against despair: history usually warns against hope, but at rare moments a real change can arrive and make justice possible. The passage asks readers to believe in healing, a greater future, and the chance that hope and history can briefly meet.
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