#and yes i shall CONTINUE to lean into using semicolons for posts like this

[catkin-morgs-kookaburralover]

there was a post someone beloved sent me a few minutes ago. i queued it. but i'm stealing from my own tags to start this:

hope is an eagle, wings and feathers and talons, light and unreachable and endless; hope is a dog, soft and close and excitable, here and there and everywhere; hope is a rabbit, small and shy and easily spooked; hope is a raccoon, found in even the darkest and most wretched places;

hope is a knife, cutting deep into dark desires; hope is a noose, wrapping around and around; hope is a gun, ever ready to make its presence known; hope is a poison, never letting go, changing everything it comes into contact with