We usually seek the divine in the sky, But religion is best found on the ground. Nature is our true creator.
STEPHANIE BRIARI 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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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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The day I made peace with my pain was the day I was born again.
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Light finds you just as I once did: an accident that is no accident.
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In my dreams you conjure me like a spell in the night. Let us haunt one another with uneasy peace, and die burning alive.
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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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Trauma has deep roots indeed, but that doesn’t mean you shouldn’t pull the weeds.
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I am strong. My heart still hopes. My mind still dreams. My soul still craves pouring energy into everything that I love.
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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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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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I fall headlong into everything that lights me on fire. I know not of restraint. I was born to burn.
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I count the stars from whence we came. I name them all for you; my flame.
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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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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.
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You’re preserved inside of me; cadaversque. I both acquiesce and atrophy because of it.
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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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Our story bleeds from my eyes until I cannot tell the stars from streetlights.
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The glint of mischief in your eyes is the flint in my matchstick. Striking; always this close to igniting.
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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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Standing in your power scares a lot of people. You become something formidable, intimating, and aspirational all at once.
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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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Love me until oblivion paints your portraits on my eyelids, sinking by eons into distance that never separates us.
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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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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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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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I erected cities with adoration on my tongue and you burnt mine down in the wake of your love.
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