I was looking for you in all the places our love used to be. When all along I should have been looking for me.
STEPHANIE BRIARSome 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.
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In 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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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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I fall headlong into everything that lights me on fire. I know not of restraint. I was born to burn.
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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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Last night, I sent you home with a kiss and a promise. I hope you still believe in roses.
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Trauma has deep roots indeed, but that doesn’t mean you shouldn’t pull the weeds.
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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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You could not keep me fed by throwing me bones and empty promises. I am ashamed to admit how much starving I did before I finally left.
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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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Poetry? That’s easy. I just cut the vein, and let it bleed.
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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.
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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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The search for external sources is nothing compared to internal forces.
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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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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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