SO SHAKE AND SHATTER

"My truest hopes have never failed, they have merely

been buried beneath the shoveled muck of disillusion,

or encased in a carapace of self-serving desire. It is only

false hopes that are brittle, shattering like shells of thin glass,

to reveal the diamond hardness of the unshakeable eternal

hopes within. So shake and shatter all that

would hinder my growth, O God."

From "A Liturgy for the Death of a Dream" by Douglas McKelvey