I am strong. My heart still hopes. My mind still dreams. My soul still craves pouring energy into everything that I love.
STEPHANIE BRIAROur memories lurch to a reluctant halt in their funeral march, so I can pour salt over them one last time.
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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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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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I count the stars from whence we came. I name them all for you; my flame.
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Our story bleeds from my eyes until I cannot tell the stars from streetlights.
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You’re preserved inside of me; cadaversque. I both acquiesce and atrophy because of it.
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I don’t know how to put my love down, or to keep holding too much of it.
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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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Trauma has deep roots indeed, but that doesn’t mean you shouldn’t pull the weeds.
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The search for external sources is nothing compared to internal forces.
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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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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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The glint of mischief in your eyes is the flint in my matchstick. Striking; always this close to igniting.
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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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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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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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