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 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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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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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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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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How do you sleep soundly, knowing you traded roses for weeds?
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If we are what we love, Then I am whatever you are made of.
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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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Trauma has deep roots indeed, but that doesn’t mean you shouldn’t pull the 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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I am a phoenix living in a culture of vultures.
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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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The pain of your memory is sharp enough to be felt the nails raked along my back by somebody else.
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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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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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You’re preserved inside of me; cadaversque. I both acquiesce and atrophy because of it.
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