The pain of your memory is sharp enough to be felt the nails raked along my back by somebody else.
STEPHANIE BRIARPoetry? That’s easy. I just cut the vein, and let it bleed.
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“Ashes”, we once thought, but the embers in our eyes might have bought us time.
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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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Poetry? That’s easy. I just cut the vein, and let it bleed.
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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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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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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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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 glint of mischief in your eyes is the flint in my matchstick. Striking; always this close to igniting.
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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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Light finds you just as I once did: an accident that is no accident.
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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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You’re preserved inside of me; cadaversque. I both acquiesce and atrophy because of it.
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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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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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I count the stars from whence we came. I name them all for you; my flame.
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