#standing down

I watch you burn in your own blaze the smoke curling around everything I thought I knew Your laughter, sharp and sweet cuts deeper than it heals

I've memorized the map of your storms the places where I shouldn't go the cliffs that drop without warning yet my feet keep wandering

Every word you throw every glance the pierces me feels like a promise I know I can't trust

Still, I linger a moth on a flame I've been warned against drawn to the chaos you carry like it's a perfume meant for me

And yet, tonight I tell myself, softly I am standing down not out of fear but because loving you is a battle I cannot survive without losing pieces of myself

Tony Blair quits Middle East envoy role

Original post from BBC News ‘………….. Former UK Prime Minister Tony Blair is to stand down from his role as Middle East envoy representing the US, Russia, the UN and the EU, sources confirm. He will leave the role next month after he fulfils “outstanding commitments”, a source close to Mr Blair told the BBC. Mr Blair, who took the role just hours after leaving Downing Street in 2007, has written to…

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standing down

17 april 1992

james kelly

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"Memory of places and comrades" and unheard stories - Voices from War blog, A Writing Workshop for Veterans -

Benjamin Busch, veteran and writer, penned the introduction to upcoming anthology, Standing Down (coming from the Great Books Foundation this October), which pulls together a wide-ranging assemblage of writing on war, an exciting addition to war…

[Standing outside Charlie's apartment block with a peace offering of cake in hand, Cece couldn't work out whether she was doing the right thing or being an absolute fool. As much as she'd decided to try and take a leaf out of Morgan's book, be nicer, the idea of having to look Charlie in the eye and apologise made her cringe. She pressed the entry buzzer.] Hi, Charlie? It's Cece. Look, I know you probably don't want to talk to me but if you don't then I'm going to have to leave cake on your doorstep so could you like, maybe, let me in?