It has been years now and you still remain, blood stains splattered across my brain. Its not that you were the first woman that I loved, you were the first person I memorized properly.
MAGGIE BOWYERI know I could be a petty queen, I could release all the receipts the way you treated me. But honey I’m happier living in peace than cruelty.
More Maggie Bowyer Quotes
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I knew i was losing you, But when you tossed me into the mail box it finally hit me- I was losing me.
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You’ve retracted your rays of warmth. You’ve pulled the clouds to cover sunlight. I think everyone is growing more concerned as the days keep passing and you’re still absent.
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I’d rather suffer in silence than be subjected to deafening stares. I feel like I’m in an abusive relationship with my body, no one can see the bruises.
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December sinks in like a cold shouldered old friend. I try to stretch, reach my toes, but my own bones feel covered in snow.
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Is this pain ripping me, ripping us apart, really just psychosomatic?
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I screamed and cried but only because i wanted to make this right. Instead, I sat alone, shivering watching the evening turn into night.
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Speak to me again, so I’m writing another poem I’ll never send.
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There are versions of myself I will never recover, stolen by moments i will forever remember.
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You’d read between my lines, You’d seen truths I had tried to deny all my life. You had read poems that were tucked neatly under my sheets, words I never meant anyone to read.
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I’m actually great at being alone. It was being abandoned that was hard.
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The grace of being home is that i no longer have to waste energy on looking okay.
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Am i meant to untangle the knots in my own muscles? Do they think its as simple as a few tangles in my own hair?
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The last time you backstabbed me I grew a backbone. I should thank you.
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Two showers a day and I’m still a thousand more from washing you away.
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Don’t you know that shedding your pain only makes it reverberate.
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