“Ashes”, we once thought, but the embers in our eyes might have bought us time.
STEPHANIE BRIAR“Ashes”, we once thought, but the embers in our eyes might have bought us time.
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I am a phoenix living in a culture of vultures.
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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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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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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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In the absence of you I look to the moon and pray that the stars light my way, too.
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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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The day I made peace with my pain was the day I was born again.
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Light finds you just as I once did: an accident that is no accident.
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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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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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Our story bleeds from my eyes until I cannot tell the stars from streetlights.
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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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Poetry? That’s easy. I just cut the vein, and let it bleed.
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The search for external sources is nothing compared to internal forces.
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