The pain of your memory is sharp enough to be felt the nails raked along my back by somebody else.
STEPHANIE BRIARIt 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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I count the stars from whence we came. I name them all for you; my flame.
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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 the absence of you I look to the moon and pray that the stars light my way, too.
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The search for external sources is nothing compared to internal forces.
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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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Your darkness does not scare me, nor will I run from you; like a star, I’m falling for the phases of your moon.
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I would throw down roots with you if I ever had the chance. We’d grow strong in tender shoots, and bloom in burning hands.
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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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We weren’t written in the stars; all that glitters wasn’t ours.
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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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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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Do I look as good as I remember, Looking back at you from over my shoulder, smug as the devil?
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You are what it feels like to watch the final silvers of sun fall and die into the silver ocean; tangerine sky giving way to moon-glow and starlight.
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Our story bleeds from my eyes until I cannot tell the stars from streetlights.
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