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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.

Stephanie Briar

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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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Our story bleeds from my eyes until I cannot tell the stars from streetlights.
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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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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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I erected cities with adoration on my tongue and you burnt mine down in the wake of your love.
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