The pain of your memory is sharp enough to be felt the nails raked along my back by somebody else.
STEPHANIE BRIARI erected cities with adoration on my tongue and you burnt mine down in the wake of your love.
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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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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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In the absence of you I look to the moon and pray that the stars light my way, too.
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“Ashes”, we once thought, but the embers in our eyes might have bought us time.
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We weren’t written in the stars; all that glitters wasn’t ours.
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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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How do you sleep soundly, knowing you traded roses for weeds?
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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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I count the stars from whence we came. I name them all for you; my flame.
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I am a phoenix living in a culture of vultures.
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Emotion = Energy in motion.
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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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You’re preserved inside of me; cadaversque. I both acquiesce and atrophy because of it.
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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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Do I look as good as I remember, Looking back at you from over my shoulder, smug as the devil?
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