We weren’t written in the stars; all that glitters wasn’t ours.
STEPHANIE BRIARIn my dreams we got past the parking lot; you took me past the old, oak door, led me up onto the vacant altar, and offered me to every god whose name you invoked as you worshipped my body.
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In the absence of you I look to the moon and pray that the stars light my way, too.
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I count the stars from whence we came. I name them all for you; my flame.
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Our memories lurch to a reluctant halt in their funeral march, so I can pour salt over them one last time.
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He’ll keep some daying and tommorwing until he has no tomorrows left. I don’t choose that.
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I am strong. My heart still hopes. My mind still dreams. My soul still craves pouring energy into everything that I love.
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Anxiety is living with an apple on your head and you imagine that everyone you know stands watching with a bow to shoot an arrow at it.
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“Ashes”, we once thought, but the embers in our eyes might have bought us time.
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The pain of your memory is sharp enough to be felt the nails raked along my back by somebody else.
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To the oppressed with no seat on the table; dreaming of change and better days, I will pull up a chair, and light fires in your name.
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Last night, I sent you home with a kiss and a promise. I hope you still believe in roses.
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If we are what we love, Then I am whatever you are made of.
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Do I look as good as I remember, Looking back at you from over my shoulder, smug as the devil?
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When you focus on directing your energy away from harm and toward healing, you feed the soul and starve the ego.
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I pressed the dress to my nose, and found what was left of your ghost. It was then that I remembered how to cry.
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It quietly stops my breath to realize that my greatest grand gesture, my last, best act of love was to let you go.
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