Hope

I was watching Criminal Minds on cable and at the end of the show they quoted the 1st phrase from a poem by Emily Dickinson

Hope is the thing with feathers

That perches in the soul,

And sings the tune--without the words,

And never stops at all,

For those searching/waiting for an answer which the odds are not high, they can only cling onto Hope. They live day by day with a small Hope, that deep inside, some day a miracle will happen and one day they get what they have hope for. Hope... its out there... u can feel it but u can't touch it, u can sense it but u can't grasp it.

 

Here is the full verse

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.

Written on October 15, 2010