Last night, I sent you home with a kiss and a promise. I hope you still believe in roses.
STEPHANIE BRIARI 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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The day I made peace with my pain was the day I was born again.
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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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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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You are what it feels like to watch the final silvers of sun fall and die into the silver ocean; tangerine sky giving way to moon-glow and starlight.
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Trauma has deep roots indeed, but that doesn’t mean you shouldn’t pull the weeds.
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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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Stop accepting abstract noun love. Real love is always action verb.
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When I was a child, I used to fear monsters under the bed. I have since learned that most monsters are found within. And they are always worth fighting.
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Poetry? That’s easy. I just cut the vein, and let it bleed.
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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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Creatives are neither born nor created. They are activated.
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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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Your darkness does not scare me, nor will I run from you; like a star, I’m falling for the phases of your moon.
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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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He’ll keep some daying and tommorwing until he has no tomorrows left. I don’t choose that.
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