I am a phoenix living in a culture of vultures.
STEPHANIE BRIARThe glint of mischief in your eyes is the flint in my matchstick. Striking; always this close to igniting.
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I don’t know how to put my love down, or to keep holding too much of it.
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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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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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Do I look as good as I remember, Looking back at you from over my shoulder, smug as the devil?
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I erected cities with adoration on my tongue and you burnt mine down in the wake of your love.
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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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Poetry? That’s easy. I just cut the vein, and let it bleed.
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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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I was looking for you in all the places our love used to be. When all along I should have been looking for me.
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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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The search for external sources is nothing compared to internal forces.
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Stop accepting abstract noun love. Real love is always action verb.
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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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Last night, I sent you home with a kiss and a promise. I hope you still believe in roses.
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“Ashes”, we once thought, but the embers in our eyes might have bought us time.
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