Still, I wrote. Even when the police where coming. Even when my whole body hurt, and the slightest sound would make me quake.
GEMMA IVERSENDeep within, I still exist; a brighter, happy me. Just look beyond my outer casing.
More Gemma Iversen Quotes
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A seed of suspicion. A sprout of doubt. A sapling of worry. But what an oak of strength I’ve become.
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I couldn’t care less how much money a person has, or what their job title is. Show me a person who seeks out the beauty in a wreckage; who’ll take the remnants of their troubles and stitch a sail from the tatters.
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And just like that, fostered beneath the stars. curated by moonlight, our love became incarnate.
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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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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 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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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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Lets conduct a study. Let’s pull up a jury. Are you a beautiful person? or inclined to wanton fury.
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You don’t deserve her, but the least you can do is damned well love her.
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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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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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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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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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And again I’m in your arms. Searching your skin for some small comfort. Your touch, this time, is love’s purest tender. Your hold, for now, is a fortress I feel safe in. Maybe, once more, I can call your body home.
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But are they protection or a cage? These ribs that ensnare my heart so.
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