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.
STEPHANIE BRIARPoetry? That’s easy. I just cut the vein, and let it bleed.
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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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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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He’ll keep some daying and tommorwing until he has no tomorrows left. I don’t choose that.
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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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We weren’t written in the stars; all that glitters wasn’t ours.
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The search for external sources is nothing compared to internal forces.
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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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In the absence of you I look to the moon and pray that the stars light my way, too.
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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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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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We usually seek the divine in the sky, But religion is best found on the ground. Nature is our true creator.
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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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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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Standing in your power scares a lot of people. You become something formidable, intimating, and aspirational all at once.
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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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