You’re preserved inside of me; cadaversque. I both acquiesce and atrophy because of it.
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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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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Do I look as good as I remember, Looking back at you from over my shoulder, smug as the devil?
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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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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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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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Light finds you just as I once did: an accident that is no accident.
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Our story bleeds from my eyes until I cannot tell the stars from streetlights.
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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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I erected cities with adoration on my tongue and you burnt mine down in the wake of your love.
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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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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 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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If we are what we love, Then I am whatever you are made of.
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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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