When disappointment wails

 

Take this sense of raging disappointment: set it down, 

hold its hand, and let it tell you how it feels.

Let it wail; let the echoes of the anguish and betrayals of its youth

resound in the caverns of your heart,

and let it weep until its tears are spent and gone.

Now carry it, quite tenderly, to some safe and quiet place

and let it rest, rocking gently in the cradle of the stars.