"Advice From Dionysus" by Shinji Moon

Burn all your bridges

just so that you can build them again

with thicker ropes.

 

Hurt all the people you love

and then commit every felony to win them back.

 

Drown yourself in bleach until not even Heaven's light

can compare to how bright you can burn.

 

Turn yourself inside out

and paint your organs the color of what you see

in your dreams.

 

This is the art of

living with a ticking heart, a grenade you

throw through windows to make a

point that language

has no room for.

 

This is how I destroyed you.

 

And this,

is how I kept you alive.

 

Dig yourself a ditch, six

feet deep, and bury everything that you've ever

said, everything that you've never

meant, and everything that has

burned you and left you with nothing

but ash.