How do you sleep soundly, knowing you traded roses for weeds?
STEPHANIE BRIARThe glint of mischief in your eyes is the flint in my matchstick. Striking; always this close to igniting.
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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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I fall headlong into everything that lights me on fire. I know not of restraint. I was born to burn.
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Standing in your power scares a lot of people. You become something formidable, intimating, and aspirational all at once.
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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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Creatives are neither born nor created. They are activated.
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If we are what we love, Then I am whatever you are made of.
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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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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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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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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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“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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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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Emotion = Energy in motion.
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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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We weren’t written in the stars; all that glitters wasn’t ours.
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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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Light finds you just as I once did: an accident that is no accident.
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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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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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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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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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You’re preserved inside of me; cadaversque. I both acquiesce and atrophy because of it.
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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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Trauma has deep roots indeed, but that doesn’t mean you shouldn’t pull the weeds.
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