Hope.....

Hope is like a Flowing river of which the ceaseless desires constitute the waters;
it rages with the waves of keen longings and the attachments for various objects are its animals of prey; scheming thoughts of greed are the aquatic birds that abound on it,
and it destroys in its course the big trees of patience and fortitude;

it is rendered impassable by the whirlpools of ignorance and of profound depth of bed as it is,

its banks of anxious deliberation are precipitous indeed. Such a river the great yogis of pure mind pass across to enjoy supreme felicity

Verse 10 - Vairagya shatakam