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.
STEPHANIE BRIARIn the absence of you I look to the moon and pray that the stars light my way, too.
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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 you focus on directing your energy away from harm and toward healing, you feed the soul and starve the ego.
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Trauma has deep roots indeed, but that doesn’t mean you shouldn’t pull the 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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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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The search for external sources is nothing compared to internal forces.
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The glint of mischief in your eyes is the flint in my matchstick. Striking; always this close to igniting.
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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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The pain of your memory is sharp enough to be felt the nails raked along my back by somebody else.
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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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I am a phoenix living in a culture of vultures.
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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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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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I fall headlong into everything that lights me on fire. I know not of restraint. I was born to burn.
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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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