“You will see me, where there is no darkness.”

“I like the dark; it is safer here, where no one can see me. The shadows caress me; friends hugging me.”

“Lie beside me. Let me see the division of your pores. Let me see the web of scars made by your family's claws and you their furniture. Let me see the wounds that they denied. The battle ground of family life that has been your body. Let me see the bruised red lines that signal their encampment. Let me see the routed place where they are gone. Lie beside me and let the seeing be healing. No need to hide. No need for either darkness or light. Let me see you as you are.”

“I am a lantern, I glow bright I break for day, and wait for nightWithout me you’d be blindYou take me for granted every timeBut now you can’t see you set a sparkI come alive and rid out the dark Now you see in the light useless toolBut go where you can’t see and you’re the foolpoem i wrote”

“Where there is hatred, let me sow love. Where there is doubt, faith. Where there is despair, hope. Where there is darkness, light. Where there is sadness, joy.”

“Seems to me-" Lee said, feeling for the words, "seems to me the place you fight cruelty is where you find it, and the place you give help is where you see it needed....”