How do you sleep soundly, knowing you traded roses for weeds?
STEPHANIE BRIARTo 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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He’ll keep some daying and tommorwing until he has no tomorrows left. I don’t choose that.
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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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Love me until oblivion paints your portraits on my eyelids, sinking by eons into distance that never separates us.
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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 erected cities with adoration on my tongue and you burnt mine down in the wake of your love.
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The stars are where we came from. They orchestrated our return to the place we can always come home: our ancient, timeless love.
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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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If we are what we love, Then I am whatever you are made of.
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The day I made peace with my pain was the day I was born again.
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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 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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I am a phoenix living in a culture of vultures.
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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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Emotion = Energy in motion.
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