I should have known the moment your lips met mine that we were having an affair with borrowed time.
MAGGIE BOWYERThe burns didn’t hurt this badly when we were on fire.
More Maggie Bowyer Quotes
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I should have known when I started to fall in love, It was never meant to last long.
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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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When you are starved for a moment of relief, you’ll eat their poison by the mouth full, no questions until the digestion leads to new problems.
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Have I been buried alive by chronic pain? I can taste the dirt as they put me in the earth, thick on my lips like the honey that drips down my lips.
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There was no way to save her. Believe me i wanted to. But how could I, when I could barely save myself.
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I want to carve my insides out with a rusty spoon. It would be less painful.
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Don’t you know that shedding your pain only makes it reverberate.
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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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Two showers a day and I’m still a thousand more from washing you away.
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I am an emotional equation, continually miscalculation, escalation, you should be elated!
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I hope you grow. I hope you change. It almost didn’t fazed me, when you chose her. You always wanted what you ‘have.
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I can scream into every passing storm cloud, but that will not bring you back. I can yell at god as i sob over crinkled pictures, but all i can grasp are memories.
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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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There are days I want to pretend you are just a call away.
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Your words hit harder than your fists, Neither missed.
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My wells have run dry, but not because i miss you any less, I finally accept that this is life.
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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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These words crash over and threaten to destroy me. I cannot find the stars so far beneath these waves of insecurity and mistrust, their light has seemed to vanish.
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Speak to me again, so I’m writing another poem I’ll never send.
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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.
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If we found out tomorrow that oxygen was poisonous I would try to spend forever in your exhales.
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On my worst days, my brain tries to trick me into wishing I stayed. It’s really trying to convince me that I didn’t deserve to survive.
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I’m stoned on a nice boat ride. I fake a smile, you fake a life.
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Is this pain ripping me, ripping us apart, really just psychosomatic?
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Be proud of a body that bares the burden of being buried only to bloom.
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I want to find my soul rather than lose it.
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