“Take a shower, wash off
the day. Drink a glass of water. Make the room dark. Lie down and close your
eyes.
Notice the silence.
Notice your heart.
Still beating.
Still fighting.
You made it, after all.
You made it, another day.
And you can make it one
more.
You’re doing just fine.”
Charlotte Eriksson
How Many Nights
Galway Kinnell
Galway Kinnell
How many nights
have I lain in terror,
O Creator Spirit, Maker of night and day,
only to walk out
the next morning over the frozen world
hearing under the creaking of snow
faint, peaceful breaths...
snake,
bear, earthworm, ant...
and above me
a wild crow crying 'yaw yaw yaw'
from a branch nothing cried from ever in my life.
