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”.
STEPHANIE BRIARHow do you sleep soundly, knowing you traded roses for weeds?
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How do you sleep soundly, knowing you traded roses for weeds?
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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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He’ll keep some daying and tommorwing until he has no tomorrows left. I don’t choose that.
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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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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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The pain of your memory is sharp enough to be felt the nails raked along my back by somebody else.
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Emotion = Energy in motion.
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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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Do I look as good as I remember, Looking back at you from over my shoulder, smug as the devil?
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Poetry? That’s easy. I just cut the vein, and let it bleed.
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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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Love me until oblivion paints your portraits on my eyelids, sinking by eons into distance that never separates us.
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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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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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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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