Trauma has deep roots indeed, but that doesn’t mean you shouldn’t pull the weeds.
STEPHANIE BRIARI 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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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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If we are what we love, Then I am whatever you are made of.
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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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The pain of your memory is sharp enough to be felt the nails raked along my back by somebody else.
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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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In the absence of you I look to the moon and pray that the stars light my way, too.
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The day I made peace with my pain was the day I was born again.
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Stop accepting abstract noun love. Real love is always action verb.
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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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How do you sleep soundly, knowing you traded roses for weeds?
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You’re preserved inside of me; cadaversque. I both acquiesce and atrophy because of it.
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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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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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Last night, I sent you home with a kiss and a promise. I hope you still believe in roses.
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Poetry? That’s easy. I just cut the vein, and let it bleed.
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