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.
STEPHANIE BRIARIn my dreams you conjure me like a spell in the night. Let us haunt one another with uneasy peace, and die burning alive.
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Poetry? That’s easy. I just cut the vein, and let it bleed.
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I fall headlong into everything that lights me on fire. I know not of restraint. I was born to burn.
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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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Emotion = Energy in motion.
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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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You’re preserved inside of me; cadaversque. I both acquiesce and atrophy because of it.
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In 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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If we are what we love, Then I am whatever you are made of.
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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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Trauma has deep roots indeed, but that doesn’t mean you shouldn’t pull the weeds.
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The glint of mischief in your eyes is the flint in my matchstick. Striking; always this close to igniting.
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As if flesh and skin and hands are any match for bullets. As if bones won’t crack in hails of powder and lead. As if rivers of blood are not the direct result of trigger fingers that bend but do not break on “bad days”.
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How do you sleep soundly, knowing you traded roses for weeds?
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Stop accepting abstract noun love. Real love is always action verb.
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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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