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”.
STEPHANIE BRIARTo the oppressed with no seat on the table; dreaming of change and better days, I will pull up a chair, and light fires in your name.
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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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You’re preserved inside of me; cadaversque. I both acquiesce and atrophy because of it.
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Emotion = Energy in motion.
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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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The day I made peace with my pain was the day I was born again.
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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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How do you sleep soundly, knowing you traded roses for weeds?
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I count the stars from whence we came. I name them all for you; my flame.
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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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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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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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Last night, I sent you home with a kiss and a promise. I hope you still believe in roses.
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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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