Shrapnel Maps Quotes

“We are here for such a short time, and then we are gone. I wonder: How can we listen better, attentive to the shards of pain, and invite the gentle flowing of kindness? What do we say to those who remain in the thickets of suffering? How can we dismantle the structures that destroy others and ourselves? What can we do in this brief space of our breathing? What will we make instead?”
― Philip Metres, Shrapnel Maps