Your darkness does not scare me, nor will I run from you; like a star, I’m falling for the phases of your moon.
STEPHANIE BRIAR“Ashes”, we once thought, but the embers in our eyes might have bought us time.
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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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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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Standing in your power scares a lot of people. You become something formidable, intimating, and aspirational all at once.
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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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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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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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Light finds you just as I once did: an accident that is no accident.
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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 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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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 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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I count the stars from whence we came. I name them all for you; my flame.
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Creatives are neither born nor created. They are activated.
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How do you sleep soundly, knowing you traded roses for weeds?
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I am a phoenix living in a culture of vultures.
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