“Ashes”, we once thought, but the embers in our eyes might have bought us time.
STEPHANIE BRIARI fall headlong into everything that lights me on fire. I know not of restraint. I was born to burn.
More Stephanie Briar Quotes
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Poetry? That’s easy. I just cut the vein, and let it bleed.
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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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How do you sleep soundly, knowing you traded roses for 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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Our story bleeds from my eyes until I cannot tell the stars from streetlights.
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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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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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He’ll keep some daying and tommorwing until he has no tomorrows left. I don’t choose that.
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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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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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Emotion = Energy in motion.
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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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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 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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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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