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I am a phoenix living in a culture of vultures.

Stephanie Briar

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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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Darkness Fall Moon Myself Run Scare Stars Yourself
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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Learning Live Mindset Myself Prison Trade Wings
We usually seek the divine in the sky, But religion is best found on the ground. Nature is our true creator.
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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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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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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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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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“Ashes”, we once thought, but the embers in our eyes might have bought us time.
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Eyes Ourselves Relationship Thinking Time
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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Act Best Breathe Greatness Last Let Go Love Myself Quiet
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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The search for external sources is nothing compared to internal forces.
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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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Clothes Cry Ghost Myself Remember
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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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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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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He’ll keep some daying and tommorwing until he has no tomorrows left. I don’t choose that.
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Poetry? That’s easy. I just cut the vein, and let it bleed.
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We weren’t written in the stars; all that glitters wasn’t ours.
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Ourselves Stars Writing
Standing in your power scares a lot of people. You become something formidable, intimating, and aspirational all at once.
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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 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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Alive Burn Death Dreams Easy Haunt Myself Night Peace
Do I look as good as I remember, Looking back at you from over my shoulder, smug as the devil?
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Stop accepting abstract noun love. Real love is always action verb.
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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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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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Emotion = Energy in motion.
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