And if it’s true that trust, like happiness is a choice, then I’ll take this leap of faith.
GEMMA IVERSENHow are you yet to learn? I don’t want grand gestures. I don’t want the world on a plate, the best life has to offer, material things or flashy gimmicks. I just want you with me.
More Gemma Iversen Quotes
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I wished for nothing more than the warm crushing of your hold. It would be strong enough to shield me from the world as I grew old.
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You pack your whole life away as many times as I have, and it’s no more than routine. But in you I’ve found a home, more so than anywhere I’ve been.
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But are they protection or a cage? These ribs that ensnare my heart so.
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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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Go on then, color me broken whilst I feign my surprise. Let me summon some sorrow for this wreckage inside.
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I am ruled by emotion. She is a fickle leader of a volatile kingdom, where conniving skies cast intemperate clouds over my constitution.
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Somedays, I just need to switch it all off, and turn to the trees.
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Rise and shine, rise and shine. Fractious hope in life divine. Rise and flicker, rise and fade. Til’ death’s clasp I can’t evade.
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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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And just like that, fostered beneath the stars. curated by moonlight, our love became incarnate.
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With all these past fears still written on my skin, it bruises me to let you in. Trauma’s that this body holds, still guard these tactile lips untold.
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I was told I could break free if I wanted to. That my wings would mend with time. But how can I mend a part of me that was never built to weather a storm?
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I sell my pain in beauty. Wrap it in words. Package it in pleasantries, and deliver it in verse.
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I looked again at my new ring and in that moment all I knew, was that the greatest of adventures would be revealed in with you.
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