The Scope of Hope

Hope: the path
Forward my feet trod
In joy shod.

It's 8:05 PM PST November 4, 2008
and I'm crying as if my heart is breaking.
But the feeling is the opposite of grief.
It is joy. It is relief.
It is like a mending of the shattering--
the gathering and fusing of the parts,
of the many scattered shards
of my heart.