Stop, you’re cold against the skin

You take me in your arms when walls are closing in …

And I run, I run, I run, awakening my heart

But you overwhelm my lungs and it’s tearing me apart

You and I will not be shaken

by the winter sound

But my voice is suffocating

in the winter sound …

Stop, I will take control

Bend the metal into shapes that I know …

And I run, I run, I run, further than before

I shake away the skin to saturate my soul …

And you scream, you scratch, you bite, you prey on my heart

And I know that you and I can never be apart …

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Of monsters and men – Winter sound

So when we meet as strangers, when even friends look like strangers, it is good to remember that we need each other greatly you and I, more than much of the time we dare to imagine, more than more of the time we dare to admit …

– Frederick Buechner – The Hungering Dark

Life is grace. Sleep is forgiveness. The night absolves. Darkness wipes the slate clean, not spotless to be sure, but clean enough for another day’s chalking.

– Frederick Buechner – The Alphabet of Grace

The psyches and souls of women also have their own cycles and seasons of doing and solitude, running and staying, being involved and being removed, questing and resting, creating and incubating, being of the world and returning to the soul-place.

– Clarissa Pinkola Estés –