This Hope

Hope is the thing with feathers — Emily Dickinson

Surrender to truth

and hope will lift you up,

carry all true promises,

make light your burdens—

in the darkest passages

there is light when hope

“perches in the soul.”

—C.L. Fisher, November 2021

*The last line is also from Dickinson’s poem 314

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