I pressed the dress to my nose, and found what was left of your ghost. It was then that I remembered how to cry.
STEPHANIE BRIARYou’re preserved inside of me; cadaversque. I both acquiesce and atrophy because of it.
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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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The pain of your memory is sharp enough to be felt the nails raked along my back by somebody else.
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Do I look as good as I remember, Looking back at you from over my shoulder, smug as the devil?
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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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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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We weren’t written in the stars; all that glitters wasn’t ours.
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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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Last night, I sent you home with a kiss and a promise. I hope you still believe in roses.
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Light finds you just as I once did: an accident that is no accident.
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You’re preserved inside of me; cadaversque. I both acquiesce and atrophy because of it.
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Our story bleeds from my eyes until I cannot tell the stars from streetlights.
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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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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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The day I made peace with my pain was the day I was born again.
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