Hope in a Locket. 11/21/01 Somewhere... deep inside me         a gentle, cautious hope         spun precariously on a silver thread. I guarded it as if it were          my sole possession, my only child          my jewel          glinting like starlight on water Then you came to me with all your hopes           your fears           your doubts           your beautiful dreams And that fragile hope of mine           became a steely conviction...           not only in you...                                ... but in myself.