When you focus on directing your energy away from harm and toward healing, you feed the soul and starve the ego.
STEPHANIE BRIARYou’re preserved inside of me; cadaversque. I both acquiesce and atrophy because of it.
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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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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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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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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 don’t know how to put my love down, or to keep holding too much of it.
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As if flesh and skin and hands are any match for bullets. As if bones won’t crack in hails of powder and lead. As if rivers of blood are not the direct result of trigger fingers that bend but do not break on “bad days”.
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How do you sleep soundly, knowing you traded roses for weeds?
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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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I erected cities with adoration on my tongue and you burnt mine down in the wake of your love.
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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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The pain of your memory is sharp enough to be felt the nails raked along my back by somebody else.
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You’re preserved inside of me; cadaversque. I both acquiesce and atrophy because of it.
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The search for external sources is nothing compared to internal forces.
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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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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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