I was looking for you in all the places our love used to be. When all along I should have been looking for me.
STEPHANIE BRIARYou 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.
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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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We weren’t written in the stars; all that glitters wasn’t ours.
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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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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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“Ashes”, we once thought, but the embers in our eyes might have bought us time.
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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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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 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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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.
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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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The pain of your memory is sharp enough to be felt the nails raked along my back by somebody else.
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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 erected cities with adoration on my tongue and you burnt mine down in the wake of your love.
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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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If we are what we love, Then I am whatever you are made of.
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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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The search for external sources is nothing compared to internal forces.
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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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In the absence of you I look to the moon and pray that the stars light my way, too.
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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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When you focus on directing your energy away from harm and toward healing, you feed the soul and starve the ego.
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I count the stars from whence we came. I name them all for you; my flame.
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The day I made peace with my pain was the day I was born again.
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You’re preserved inside of me; cadaversque. I both acquiesce and atrophy because of it.
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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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I don’t know how to put my love down, or to keep holding too much of it.
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