Your darkness does not scare me, nor will I run from you; like a star, I’m falling for the phases of your moon.
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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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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To 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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Poetry? That’s easy. I just cut the vein, and let it bleed.
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The search for external sources is nothing compared to internal forces.
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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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In the absence of you I look to the moon and pray that the stars light my way, too.
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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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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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I am a phoenix living in a culture of vultures.
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Our memories lurch to a reluctant halt in their funeral march, so I can pour salt over them one last time.
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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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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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We weren’t written in the stars; all that glitters wasn’t ours.
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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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