The stars are where we came from. They orchestrated our return to the place we can always come home: our ancient, timeless love.
STEPHANIE BRIARPoetry? That’s easy. I just cut the vein, and let it bleed.
More Stephanie Briar Quotes
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I count the stars from whence we came. I name them all for you; my flame.
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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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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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You could not keep me fed by throwing me bones and empty promises. I am ashamed to admit how much starving I did before I finally left.
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Trauma has deep roots indeed, but that doesn’t mean you shouldn’t pull the weeds.
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You’re preserved inside of me; cadaversque. I both acquiesce and atrophy because of it.
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Our memories lurch to a reluctant halt in their funeral march, so I can pour salt over them one last time.
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The glint of mischief in your eyes is the flint in my matchstick. Striking; always this close to igniting.
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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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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 don’t know how to put my love down, or to keep holding too much of 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 fall headlong into everything that lights me on fire. I know not of restraint. I was born to burn.
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Creatives are neither born nor created. They are activated.
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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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