Hope

HOPE is the thing with feathers
That perches in the soul,
And sings the tune without the words,
And never stops at all,

And sweetest in the gale is heard;
And sore must be the storm
That could abash the little bird
That kept so many warm.

I ’ve heard it in the chillest land,
And on the strangest sea;
Yet, never, in extremity,
It asked a crumb of me.
-Emily Dickinson

This is how I feel today.
I am up. I am down.
I feel like I got a good handle it on it.
I feel like I can't even find the darn thing.
sigh.
I try not to get hopes up. They can come crashing down in a heap.