The stars are where we came from. They orchestrated our return to the place we can always come home: our ancient, timeless love.
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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You’re preserved inside of me; cadaversque. I both acquiesce and atrophy because of it.
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I am a phoenix living in a culture of vultures.
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Stop accepting abstract noun love. Real love is always action verb.
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I count the stars from whence we came. I name them all for you; my flame.
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How do you sleep soundly, knowing you traded roses for weeds?
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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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I erected cities with adoration on my tongue and you burnt mine down in the wake of your love.
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Let yourself go a little wild, a little rough around through the edges; the human spirit wasn’t meant for carefully-curated perfection.
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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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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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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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The day I made peace with my pain was the day I was born again.
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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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Love me until oblivion paints your portraits on my eyelids, sinking by eons into distance that never separates us.
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Our story bleeds from my eyes until I cannot tell the stars from streetlights.
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