I don’t know how to put my love down, or to keep holding too much of it.
STEPHANIE BRIARWe usually seek the divine in the sky, But religion is best found on the ground. Nature is our true creator.
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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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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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I erected cities with adoration on my tongue and you burnt mine down in the wake of your love.
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Our story bleeds from my eyes until I cannot tell the stars from streetlights.
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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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The day I made peace with my pain was the day I was born again.
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“Ashes”, we once thought, but the embers in our eyes might have bought us time.
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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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In the absence of you I look to the moon and pray that the stars light my way, too.
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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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Let yourself go a little wild, a little rough around through the edges; the human spirit wasn’t meant for carefully-curated perfection.
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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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How do you sleep soundly, knowing you traded roses for weeds?
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You’re preserved inside of me; cadaversque. I both acquiesce and atrophy because of it.
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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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