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.
STEPHANIE BRIARHow do you sleep soundly, knowing you traded roses for weeds?
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Standing in your power scares a lot of people. You become something formidable, intimating, and aspirational all at once.
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I fall headlong into everything that lights me on fire. I know not of restraint. I was born to burn.
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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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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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The pain of your memory is sharp enough to be felt the nails raked along my back by somebody else.
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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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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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Stop accepting abstract noun love. Real love is always action verb.
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I am a phoenix living in a culture of vultures.
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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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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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Love me until oblivion paints your portraits on my eyelids, sinking by eons into distance that never separates us.
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Our story bleeds from my eyes until I cannot tell the stars from streetlights.
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In my dreams we got past the parking lot; you took me past the old, oak door, led me up onto the vacant altar, and offered me to every god whose name you invoked as you worshipped my body.
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The stars are where we came from. They orchestrated our return to the place we can always come home: our ancient, timeless love.
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“Ashes”, we once thought, but the embers in our eyes might have bought us time.
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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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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 day I made peace with my pain was the day I was born again.
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Trauma has deep roots indeed, but that doesn’t mean you shouldn’t pull the weeds.
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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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I erected cities with adoration on my tongue and you burnt mine down in the wake of your 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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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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Creatives are neither born nor created. They are activated.
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