In the absence of you I look to the moon and pray that the stars light my way, too.
STEPHANIE BRIARWe usually seek the divine in the sky, But religion is best found on the ground. Nature is our true creator.
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Standing in your power scares a lot of people. You become something formidable, intimating, and aspirational all at once.
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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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Can hope bloom in the shade? Can time give back what it takes away? I once saw the answers to life in your eyes; now I can remember the words to goodbye.
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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 day I made peace with my pain was the day I was born again.
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Let yourself go a little wild, a little rough around through the edges; the human spirit wasn’t meant for carefully-curated perfection.
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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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Love me until oblivion paints your portraits on my eyelids, sinking by eons into distance that never separates us.
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Poetry? That’s easy. I just cut the vein, and let it bleed.
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I count the stars from whence we came. I name them all for you; my flame.
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“Ashes”, we once thought, but the embers in our eyes might have bought us time.
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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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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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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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