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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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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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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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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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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The search for external sources is nothing compared to internal forces.
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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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Poetry? 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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Trauma has deep roots indeed, but that doesn’t mean you shouldn’t pull the weeds.
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Creatives are neither born nor created. They are activated.
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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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Standing in your power scares a lot of people. You become something formidable, intimating, and aspirational all at once.
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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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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 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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