Our story bleeds from my eyes until I cannot tell the stars from streetlights.
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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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 pain of your memory is sharp enough to be felt the nails raked along my back by somebody else.
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Poetry? That’s easy. I just cut the vein, and let it bleed.
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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 am a phoenix living in a culture of vultures.
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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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In the absence of you I look to the moon and pray that the stars light my way, too.
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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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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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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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Light finds you just as I once did: an accident that is no accident.
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The day I made peace with my pain was the day I was born again.
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Anxiety is living with an apple on your head and you imagine that everyone you know stands watching with a bow to shoot an arrow at it.
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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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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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