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Some days, my mind will still be in prison, but I will live in spite of it. I unlearn how to swim; I trade my gills for lungs and wings.

Stephanie Briar

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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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I would throw down roots with you if I ever had the chance. We’d grow strong in tender shoots, and bloom in burning hands.
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Our story bleeds from my eyes until I cannot tell the stars from streetlights.
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You’re preserved inside of me; cadaversque. I both acquiesce and atrophy because of it.
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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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The pain of your memory is sharp enough to be felt the nails raked along my back by somebody else.
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