title: Night Cycles: Poetry for a Dark Night of the Soul
author:  Beth Morey 
description: Beth Morey writes, paints, and dreams in Montana. She is the author of The Light Between Us and Life After Eating Disorder, and is also the owner of Epiphany Art Studio. Her words and art have appeared in various publications, such as Somerset Studio, to linger on hot coals, Still Standing Magazine, Wild Goslings, and Disney's Family Fun. In addition to her quirky little family and their three naughty dogs, Beth is in love with luscious color, moon-gazing, and dancing wild. She writes soul into flesh at www.bethmorey.com.
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  For Dorion
  
  Sisters forever!
  
  Table of Contents
  
    1. Chapter 1
    2. Chapter 2
    3. Chapter 3
    4. Chapter 4
    5. Chapter 5
    6. Chapter 6
    7. Chapter 7
    8. Chapter 8
    9. Chapter 9
    10. Chapter 10
    11. Chapter 11
    12. Chapter 12
    13. Chapter 13
    14. Chapter 14
    15. Chapter 15
    16. Chapter 16
    17. Chapter 17
    18. Chapter 18
    19. Chapter 19
    20. Chapter 20
    21. Chapter 21
    22. Chapter 22
    23. Chapter 23
    24. Chapter 24
    25. Chapter 25
    26. Chapter 26
    27. Chapter 27
    28. Acknowledgements
  
  Chapter One
  
   **T** he pain of the dark. Eternal blackness smothering my mind. I felt so
  alone, lying there, staring at the ceiling. It hadn’t changed through all my
  days of darkness, and neither had I. We were both water-stained. Me by tears,
  and the ceiling by the rain seeping in through some wayward hole. But at least
  the stain on the ceiling vaguely represented something: a seagull sailing on
  the wind, its wings tilted u