In my dreams we got past the parking lot; you took me past the old, oak door, led me up onto the vacant altar, and offered me to every god whose name you invoked as you worshipped my body.
STEPHANIE BRIARCreatives are neither born nor created. They are activated.
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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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You could not keep me fed by throwing me bones and empty promises. I am ashamed to admit how much starving I did before I finally left.
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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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He’ll keep some daying and tommorwing until he has no tomorrows left. I don’t choose that.
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You are what it feels like to watch the final silvers of sun fall and die into the silver ocean; tangerine sky giving way to moon-glow and starlight.
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If we are what we love, Then I am whatever you are made of.
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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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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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The day I made peace with my pain was the day I was born again.
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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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I fall headlong into everything that lights me on fire. I know not of restraint. I was born to burn.
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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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How do you sleep soundly, knowing you traded roses for weeds?
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Our story bleeds from my eyes until I cannot tell the stars from streetlights.
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