Do I look as good as I remember, Looking back at you from over my shoulder, smug as the devil?
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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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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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 strong. My heart still hopes. My mind still dreams. My soul still craves pouring energy into everything that I love.
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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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“Ashes”, we once thought, but the embers in our eyes might have bought us time.
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I am a phoenix living in a culture of vultures.
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Our story bleeds from my eyes until I cannot tell the stars from streetlights.
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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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You’re preserved inside of me; cadaversque. I both acquiesce and atrophy because of it.
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If we are what we love, Then I am whatever you are made of.
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We usually seek the divine in the sky, But religion is best found on the ground. Nature is our true creator.
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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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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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Poetry? That’s easy. I just cut the vein, and let it bleed.
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Let yourself go a little wild, a little rough around through the edges; the human spirit wasn’t meant for carefully-curated perfection.
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