He’ll keep some daying and tommorwing until he has no tomorrows left. I don’t choose that.
STEPHANIE BRIARIn 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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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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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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Love me until oblivion paints your portraits on my eyelids, sinking by eons into distance that never separates us.
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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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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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I 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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Emotion = Energy in motion.
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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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The glint of mischief in your eyes is the flint in my matchstick. Striking; always this close to igniting.
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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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Trauma has deep roots indeed, but that doesn’t mean you shouldn’t pull the weeds.
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Creatives are neither born nor created. They are activated.
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The search for external sources is nothing compared to internal forces.
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