I erected cities with adoration on my tongue and you burnt mine down in the wake of your love.
STEPHANIE BRIAROur story bleeds from my eyes until I cannot tell the stars from streetlights.
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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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Standing in your power scares a lot of people. You become something formidable, intimating, and aspirational all at once.
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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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He’ll keep some daying and tommorwing until he has no tomorrows left. I don’t choose that.
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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 a phoenix living in a culture of vultures.
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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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I would throw down roots with you if I ever had the chance. We’d grow strong in tender shoots, and bloom in burning hands.
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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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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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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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Our story bleeds from my eyes until I cannot tell the stars from streetlights.
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I fall headlong into everything that lights me on fire. I know not of restraint. I was born to burn.
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