Better Little Hope

Too fervently hoping
Seems to have negative
Consequences, mostly.

Maybe you cared too much,
Or maybe the cosmos
Heard you and didn’t like

Your desperate pleading.
You’re not one of the good
Whose many kindnesses

And brave agitation
For only just causes
Underwrites the fervor

Of your wishes. The good
Wish for the right reasons.
Do they ever wish too

Fervently, too? Do they
Find their most fervent hopes
Most frequently broken?