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.
STEPHANIE BRIARCan 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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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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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.
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I am a phoenix living in a culture of vultures.
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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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The pain of your memory is sharp enough to be felt the nails raked along my back by somebody else.
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Creatives are neither born nor created. They are activated.
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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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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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I erected cities with adoration on my tongue and you burnt mine down in the wake of your love.
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You’re preserved inside of me; cadaversque. I both acquiesce and atrophy because of it.
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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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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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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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I count the stars from whence we came. I name them all for you; my flame.
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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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