These poems may possibly help you get through the dark night of the soul, as they were written there by a woman in long-term sobriety, a therapist, whose faith is tested by the impending death of a spouse during a perilous time for our democracy. Like a guidebook to overcoming personal and societal challenges, these poems are how a poet pulls their self up by their bootstraps, and speaks back to injustice with mercy, truth and courage, reaching out to activists everywhere.