Dear Hope,

Where are you?
I thought you might check in
from time to time.
I haven’t heard from you in months.

I hope you’re okay.
Maybe you are traveling,
visiting someone who needs you
more than I do.

We all need you.
Maybe you’re just tired,
or on sabbatical, maybe
in a cabin in the woods

writing your memoir.
I hope you’ll be back
before fall, before the fall,
sometime.