It is not enough to merely defend democracy. To defend it may be to lose it; to extend it is to strengthen it. Democracy is not property; it is an idea.


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An intricate string made up of infinite knots and curls. Taking a step back, it really did seem so f...
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It only took a corny joke, but the smile I saw shone brighter than a glare, more profound than a sta...
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And they danced with laughter and tears. They swung each other round and round, the first and last t...
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Just being around her made me feel better. She had an amber shade aura to her that filled any cracks...
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Inside, my soul is curled tightly bearing the burden of massive sins from another life. And my eyes ...
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Every decision, every single one, comes with a price to pay. It means you chose one thing over anoth...
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The brittle seeds remained inside my soul, my tears the water that begged them to grow. And though I...
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It was a burden on all her muscles. A hollow deeper than her bones. She braced herself though, she k...
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I held my breath tightly against the shivers coursing through my body. Darkness ate away the edges o...
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His eyes are covered by impermeable marble, a solidity that can never be breached. You think there i...
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We are the living whole of the fragments from the things we've experienced and people we've encounte...
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My scars show you I've been strong enough to endure the trauma of the world. My heart has no scars, ...
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I wear my past around my shoulders as a fine, but worn, cloak. Don't be fooled by my cloak's appeara...
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And in my novels I live many lives. Substitutes of spontaneity to replace a dreary reality. How I li...
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The storm only grew stronger. Walls of facets became flooded with cracks, the tumultuous gale escape...
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It was a slow fall, through warm experiences and good laughs. It didn't even feel like love until I ...
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They surrounded me, bare me. Their fingers like tentacles and their desires like knives. Their finge...
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On these days, I've never felt so hollow. Recollecting the many pieces of me that were lost in past ...
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Adventures kept hidden, words kept silent. You became my greatest secret. And when you left, no one ...
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I wanted to know every story behind the scars on her curves. I wanted to decipher the whispers hidde...
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I was burdened with an ever-growing heart on the verge of decay. To save myself, I had to give many ...
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I always thought time was the most valuable currency, but I realized the people we spent our time on...
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All my past heartache and pain suddenly made sense. That was who I would not be to the person who de...
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It was the end for something. It was the beginning for another. But in reality it just fell in the m...
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You are whole today, looking back at fragments of the past. Such a hollow foundation for such a powe...
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I wanted nothing more than her attention. Her thoughts filled with me. Her eyes lost in my image. I ...
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My body held on though I held snapped threads in my hands and patches of my flesh were missing entir...
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She had the blood of the sun running through her veins and the dust of stars at her fingertips. Her ...
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And though they fell as ashes, their shadows drifted as leaves.
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I realized the world around me was fragmented and broken... I had to be gentle enough not to scrape ...
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He spoke in polished honesty free of liar's filth. He said the hardest words with an unshakable voic...
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Her words were slickly lacquered, dripping with venom that singed the air as they fell. She traced h...
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She was the half-whispers born from half-thoughts, the half-breaths of dying half-hearts.
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When it came to her, I became an indomitable warrior. My muscles became her shield and my lungs aide...
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Hoping fast that my arrow's flight is steady and true,
I need this, I need my arrow to find yo...
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My heart may be bruised and scarred, bleeding slow drip-drip with every thump and every other thump-...
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Whether it was in the maze of my fantastical mind or the allure of her gossamer eyes, they took me t...
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She is beyond any mortal structure of words, yet she inspires the effort to try anyway.
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She was the sort of girl who flooded my five senses. Her voice was melody to my ears, her taste gave...
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That's what really broke me, she was better than any fantasy I could hope to imagine. I've spent my ...
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I always deemed myself a one chance person, if you hurt me or betray me, then I'm done with you. As ...
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She speaks in heartbeats and the rises of her chest, words forever seared in thoughts that will neve...
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He sang softly, less with words and more with thought. She cradled his head, stitching together his ...
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These places I traveled through, they were a lot like the people I knew. Some abodes I muddled about...
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In a way, she became the sand to my hourglass... she made watching that trickling sand a little more...
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She was carmine shadows reflecting from my crimson words. Every pulse sent a velvet ripple through t...
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As I watched the sky morph shades of amber and amethyst, of fiery orange and smoldering pink, I alwa...
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That last bit of hope always lingered as a stubborn thread. Every time I would try to cut it I would...
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I spill my emotions and hopes on pieces of paper and pixels of screens, combining and creating, merg...
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