Last night, I sent you home with a kiss and a promise. I hope you still believe in roses.
STEPHANIE BRIARI count the stars from whence we came. I name them all for you; my flame.
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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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Emotion = Energy in motion.
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We weren’t written in the stars; all that glitters wasn’t ours.
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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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Light finds you just as I once did: an accident that is no accident.
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How do you sleep soundly, knowing you traded roses for weeds?
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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 am a phoenix living in a culture of vultures.
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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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I erected cities with adoration on my tongue and you burnt mine down in the wake of your love.
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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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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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The pain of your memory is sharp enough to be felt the nails raked along my back by somebody else.
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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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Stop accepting abstract noun love. Real love is always action verb.
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