The audacity of hope to get 

me hooked on it and then 

disappoint me without so much 

as a backward glance. 

Up until now I thought 

we were walking hand in hand but I 

now see that I was only being led. 

or more accurately Misled.

‘Expectations lead to disappointemnts’ 

So I never expected until hope walked 

in with a grace I can only describe as assurance. 

Fleeting was that assurnace as now I see 

I should have never allowed it the

privilege of getting to know me.