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.
STEPHANIE BRIARI am a phoenix living in a culture of vultures.
More Stephanie Briar Quotes
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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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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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I 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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I count the stars from whence we came. I name them all for you; my flame.
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Our story bleeds from my eyes until I cannot tell the stars from streetlights.
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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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If we are what we love, Then I am whatever you are made of.
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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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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 search for external sources is nothing compared to internal forces.
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You’re preserved inside of me; cadaversque. I both acquiesce and atrophy because of it.
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Creatives are neither born nor created. They are activated.
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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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