Speak to me again, so I’m writing another poem I’ll never send.
MAGGIE BOWYEROn 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.
More Maggie Bowyer Quotes
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I’m actually great at being alone. It was being abandoned that was hard.
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Don’t you know that shedding your pain only makes it reverberate.
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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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The very act of surviving in a world that does nothing but reject you is an act of revolution.
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I 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.
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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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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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The grace of being home is that i no longer have to waste energy on looking okay.
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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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There are days I want to pretend you are just a call away.
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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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I’m stoned on a nice boat ride. I fake a smile, you fake a life.
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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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I want to carve my insides out with a rusty spoon. It would be less painful.
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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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