WAW Walks Away a Second Time

[Traveler]

I know that I need to stop hoping.

You can HOPE for a bonus at work or peace of earth or to win the lottery or for your wife to return to you without EXPECTING and counting on those events happening. Keep hope. Drop expectations. (:

“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.