Our story bleeds from my eyes until I cannot tell the stars from streetlights.
STEPHANIE BRIAROur 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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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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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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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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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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Trauma has deep roots indeed, but that doesn’t mean you shouldn’t pull the weeds.
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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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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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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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Light finds you just as I once did: an accident that is no accident.
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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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Do I look as good as I remember, Looking back at you from over my shoulder, smug as the devil?
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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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