You are what it feels like to watch the final silvers of sun fall and die into the silver ocean; tangerine sky giving way to moon-glow and starlight.
STEPHANIE BRIARPoetry? That’s easy. I just cut the vein, and let it bleed.
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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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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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He’ll keep some daying and tommorwing until he has no tomorrows left. I don’t choose that.
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Light finds you just as I once did: an accident that is no accident.
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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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I erected cities with adoration on my tongue and you burnt mine down in the wake of your 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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We weren’t written in the stars; all that glitters wasn’t ours.
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The search for external sources is nothing compared to internal forces.
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Poetry? That’s easy. I just cut the vein, and let it bleed.
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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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In the absence of you I look to the moon and pray that the stars light my way, too.
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Trauma has deep roots indeed, but that doesn’t mean you shouldn’t pull the weeds.
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Our story bleeds from my eyes until I cannot tell the stars from streetlights.
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In my dreams you conjure me like a spell in the night. Let us haunt one another with uneasy peace, and die burning alive.
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Let yourself go a little wild, a little rough around through the edges; the human spirit wasn’t meant for carefully-curated perfection.
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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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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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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 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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The stars are where we came from. They orchestrated our return to the place we can always come home: our ancient, timeless love.
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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 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 glint of mischief in your eyes is the flint in my matchstick. Striking; always this close to igniting.
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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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