I erected cities with adoration on my tongue and you burnt mine down in the wake of your love.
STEPHANIE BRIARIn the absence of you I look to the moon and pray that the stars light my way, too.
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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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Let yourself go a little wild, a little rough around through the edges; the human spirit wasn’t meant for carefully-curated perfection.
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You’re preserved inside of me; cadaversque. I both acquiesce and atrophy because of it.
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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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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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The search for external sources is nothing compared to internal forces.
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Light finds you just as I once did: an accident that is no accident.
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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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Standing in your power scares a lot of people. You become something formidable, intimating, and aspirational all at once.
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Our story bleeds from my eyes until I cannot tell the stars from streetlights.
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The stars are where we came from. They orchestrated our return to the place we can always come home: our ancient, timeless love.
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How do you sleep soundly, knowing you traded roses for weeds?
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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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Poetry? That’s easy. I just cut the vein, and let it bleed.
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