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Te universe is dyadic

Like us
Stars are not solitary

Tey have “companions,”
Separate, but equal planets
Tat keep from collapsing into one another

By opposing centrifugal force
Teir distance and desire

Create the structure of the universe
Our hearts and lungs

Exist in halves
Our lives are split
By light and dark
We have sets of heart chambers

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Te corneas reading this
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We were born from waves and falters
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But can I tell you

Tat what I had been looking for all that time
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No dripping rose perfume
Sweat-stained towel
Dulled black cotton dress
Messy, bleached waves sticking to lip balm

Lukewarm air filling the car
Moment of stinging anxiety
Tat wasn’t filled with the same deep knowing
I didn’t fit in this world
Because I was born to help create a new one
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Productivity is how you run away from yourself

Creativity is how you become yourself
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Te things we lose are not losses

Tey are entryways
Tey are the world saying, sometimes sharply,
Tere is something else out there
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What we are doing here is unlearning

Unbecoming everything we were taught to be
We are unlearning trends, consuming
We are undoing binds, removing pacifiers
And screaming out
We are letting go of every beautiful thing
Tat we thought we needed to be who we are
And discovering that we could be ourselves
Or we could be distracted
Tere was never anything else
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You are so busy standing in your ruins

Tat you are not building a new city
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I put the tip of my fingernail on the glass of my phone as

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the thought, the transmission of information. Te move-
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You want every single thing that’s happening to you

If you are creating it, if you are keeping it,
If it is paining you for so long, you want it
You would never entertain something you didn’t think
you needed
Go into the belly of your being
And look in the face of what is holding this pain
Ask them: What else can I do to feed you?
How else can we move on?
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Your body will never choose loss
So instead of focusing on how much less you want
Weight, fights, debt, worry
Focus on what more you want
Strength, harmony, freedom, certainty
It is in building the new that we are freed
Not in damning the old
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Build it, and it will come

Empty out a drawer for someone
Tey will fill it
Share your work every day
People will find it
Walk and your legs will strengthen
Open your hours and your days will fill
Speak as though you’ve arrived
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Tere is no such thing as being idle

Even in rest the body is purging, storing, restoring
Letting the mind go quiet is not stepping into nothingness
It is allowing clarity and grace
It is replacing chaos with light
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Tere is something you can learn from everyone. Any-

thing you can learn, any book you can read or any song
you can hear first came from the mind of another human
being. And once you realize that all we ever really learn,
receive, and experience comes from other human minds
and hearts, you will never feel greater or less than another.
You will only acknowledge that everyone has a different
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Te path, like lines of a fingerprint, is unique to each of us

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When you heal yourself

You heal everyone
When you’re reaping a harvest
You can feed everyone
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It’s the only path
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As illness, as irrationality
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your cells
It was only the idea that you couldn’t feel
Tat you were broken, that you were helpless
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What you wish the world would give to you
You’d be astounded how much more satisfying
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Everything exists in layers and iterations

Reality is a series of fragmented perspectives
No two are the same
Te way the truth seems self-evident to you
As it does to someone else who has walked a different path
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Real change happens in subtle motions

But mostly it’s deciding to create a life
Tat didn’t exist before
And that is the beauty of the things that break you
Tey force you to create yourself anew to move on
And perhaps that was the point
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Do you know how hard it is to liberate yourself to be who

you are
Do you know how much work it takes to believe
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Faults in your character
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All this time
Because you don’t recognize your soul mate

By the color of their hair
Or how certain you are that you’ve found them
So many people are so sure
And end up so wrong
You recognize them by flow

You recognize them because you vent to them
Not about them
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You recognize them because you don’t have to question

“Should we be together?”
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Te first night I chose sleep over him

Was the first I truly loved myself
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Love is not a sensation you transmute

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“Salt Water is a slow deep breath, in and out. It sits in a new

Read free for 30 days

“Brianna Wiest does it again. Fantastic writing of poems that are

Copyright © 2017 Brianna Wiest. All rights reserved.

This book was designed by KJ Parish and published by Thought

“Part of you pours out of me in these lines from time to time.”

“I am freed by the same mind that traps me.”

I thought becoming myself

But it was ﬁnding

As the design

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Te universe is dyadic

Stars are not solitary

Tat keep from collapsing into one another

Teir distance and desire

Our hearts and lungs

We have sets of heart chambers

But can I tell you

Messy, bleached waves sticking to lip balm

Because I was born to help create a new one

Productivity is how you run away from yourself

Te things we lose are not losses

What we are doing here is unlearning

You are so busy standing in your ruins

I put the tip of my ﬁngernail on the glass of my phone as

I feel bursts of vibration that create the word, the sound,

Searchthat everything we do and are is just another formation of

You want every single thing that’s happening to you

Build it, and it will come

Tere is no such thing as being idle

Tere is something you can learn from everyone. Any-

Search the world.

Te path, like lines of a ﬁngerprint, is unique to each of us

Tere is no need to compete with someone for your destiny

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Te ecosystem we generated from

When you heal yourself

Negativity is an incomplete feeling

Give to everyone else

Everything exists in layers and iterations

And what will you do

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Real change happens in subtle motions

Do you know how hard it is to liberate yourself to be who

Tere is a sort of magic on the other side of becoming

Imagine how things would feel

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Does your relationship improve

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