Day 1
The beginning of the project.
The subject injected with the specimens;
Tube A - Hope,
Tube B- Despair,
Will be tested for potency,
effect and relationship.

Day 2
Subject uttering - incomprehensible.
Both specimens are doing well.
equal conditions are given to both.
No differences yet to note,
Although it is too early,
To tell.

Day 3
Tested for any impurities,
Subject emptied of love, lust,
Passion and enthusiasm.
Subject emptied of hate, anger,
Violence and malevolence.
Specimens concentrated-
pure.


Day 4,
Results yielded no answers;
Specimens separated,
Conditions were changed.
Robbed of light hope faltered,
Despair flourished.
results surprising,
Significant.

Day 5,
Remarkable discovery!
It would appear-
The inverse relationship,
Between hope and despair,
Is more complex,
Than imagined.

Day 6,
Despair lost it's potency,
When hope was removed,
From the subject.
Comatose and docile,
Seemingly false hope,
Feeds despair.

Day 7
Disaster!
The balance was disrupted,
An ounce too much of despair,
And the subject rendered useless.
Must find new vict--subject,
And begin test again.


Final analysis;
Hope was weak and fragile and easily overcome by an imbalance of despair shot straight into the blood.
Hope is not sustainable in a normal environment although appears to be growing is in fact decaying.
Despair is a catalyst and feeds on the last pieces of decaying hope. Despair can only grow stronger.
Hope is unreliable and unstable whilst despair is a constant.
Thus it is my conclusion that stable despair is infinitely preferable to faltering misleading 'hope.'