When you focus on directing your energy away from harm and toward healing, you feed the soul and starve the ego.
STEPHANIE BRIARAs 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”.
More Stephanie Briar Quotes
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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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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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You’re preserved inside of me; cadaversque. I both acquiesce and atrophy because of it.
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Poetry? That’s easy. I just cut the vein, and let it bleed.
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If we are what we love, Then I am whatever you are made of.
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Our story bleeds from my eyes until I cannot tell the stars from streetlights.
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I 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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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”.
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How do you sleep soundly, knowing you traded roses for weeds?
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“Ashes”, we once thought, but the embers in our eyes might have bought us time.
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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 pain of your memory is sharp enough to be felt the nails raked along my back by somebody else.
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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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Do I look as good as I remember, Looking back at you from over my shoulder, smug as the devil?
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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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