Call me reckless, call me hopeless, say it to me, implore. Call me feckless, call me helpless, call me all those things and more. All I ask if that you heed the one good reason you’re ignored. Judge me all you like, its not you I do this for.
GEMMA IVERSENGuess who’s flying free now? You, a mere speck of the ground. And I, lost and found amongst the clouds.
More Gemma Iversen Quotes
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To all those I have loved and left, please know, it wasn’t you. For though I’d not wish you bereft, this heart seeks pastures new.
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Still, I wrote. Even when the police where coming. Even when my whole body hurt, and the slightest sound would make me quake.
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I strip. In low light. In the silence of my room. I strip like an act of confession. Unclothing my meticulous mind and teasing language from the vestry of my soul.
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Welcome to the heart of me, the purest, uncut parts of me. These inmost fragments that you see, from pain and passion came to be, in blemished, unclothed intimacy, existing here as poetry.
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Champagne on our lips and desire on our minds and you can leave those painful memories behind and you can bring your hand to my heart as we kiss. There’s nothing else but us on nights like this.
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Stay with me on this long night, til the dawn turns crow skies bright. Bring your skin to join with mine, and make in me a transient shine.
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Guess who’s flying free now? You, a mere speck of the ground. And I, lost and found amongst the clouds.
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Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, and watch me spark like a match tossed to tinder.
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Burnt mirror, smeared glass. Do you like what you see? If my body is a temple, then my poetry is the darkest vestry. My mouth is a chalice, and these words are sacramental.
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And just like that, fostered beneath the stars. curated by moonlight, our love became incarnate.
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Do I need you? No. But I want you. Like the fish seek warmer waters and the birds the brighter skies.
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I can fade to darkness too. Through fear or want or need, its true. If only to escape the truth; that loneliness abides with you.
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She can shake away the recent frost of misery and pain. As life takes in a vivid sense of meaning once again.
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Let me show you how words can make merriment from the most bitter melancholy. How words softly spoken, can heal even the most insidious of wounds.
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But are they protection or a cage? These ribs that ensnare my heart so.
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