
It comes like a hard thing. It takes over my breath, my joy and my hope. I know that it is not real. And that any harm it threatens is illusory. And yet. And yet it assails me. As it did this morning. In those wee small hours.

It comes like a hard thing. It takes over my breath, my joy and my hope. I know that it is not real. And that any harm it threatens is illusory. And yet. And yet it assails me. As it did this morning. In those wee small hours.