I am strong. My heart still hopes. My mind still dreams. My soul still craves pouring energy into everything that I love.
STEPHANIE BRIARHow do you sleep soundly, knowing you traded roses for weeds?
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Trauma has deep roots indeed, but that doesn’t mean you shouldn’t pull the weeds.
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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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We weren’t written in the stars; all that glitters wasn’t ours.
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How do you sleep soundly, knowing you traded roses for weeds?
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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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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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Last night, I sent you home with a kiss and a promise. I hope you still believe in roses.
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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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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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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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Poetry? That’s easy. I just cut the vein, and let it bleed.
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Our story bleeds from my eyes until I cannot tell the stars from streetlights.
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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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If we are what we love, Then I am whatever you are made of.
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The day I made peace with my pain was the day I was born again.
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