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.
STEPHANIE BRIARYou’re preserved inside of me; cadaversque. I both acquiesce and atrophy because 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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Do I look as good as I remember, Looking back at you from over my shoulder, smug as the devil?
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Trauma has deep roots indeed, but that doesn’t mean you shouldn’t pull the weeds.
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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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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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Our story bleeds from my eyes until I cannot tell the stars from streetlights.
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I count the stars from whence we came. I name them all for you; my flame.
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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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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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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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I don’t know how to put my love down, or to keep holding too much of it.
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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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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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Poetry? That’s easy. I just cut the vein, and let it bleed.
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