I was looking for you in all the places our love used to be. When all along I should have been looking for me.
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 you focus on directing your energy away from harm and toward healing, you feed the soul and starve the ego.
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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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Poetry? That’s easy. I just cut the vein, and let it bleed.
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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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Our story bleeds from my eyes until I cannot tell the stars from streetlights.
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How do you sleep soundly, knowing you traded roses for weeds?
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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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Light finds you just as I once did: an accident that is no accident.
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In my dreams you conjure me like a spell in the night. Let us haunt one another with uneasy peace, and die burning alive.
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Our memories lurch to a reluctant halt in their funeral march, so I can pour salt over them one last time.
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I fall headlong into everything that lights me on fire. I know not of restraint. I was born to burn.
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The stars are where we came from. They orchestrated our return to the place we can always come home: our ancient, timeless love.
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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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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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