The grace of being home is that i no longer have to waste energy on looking okay.
MAGGIE BOWYERI’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.
More Maggie Bowyer Quotes
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Speak to me again, so I’m writing another poem I’ll never send.
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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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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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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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Is this pain ripping me, ripping us apart, really just psychosomatic?
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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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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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I was only ten the first time I remember getting stabbed. My agony pierced the air with a sickening scream.
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Don’t you know that shedding your pain only makes it reverberate.
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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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What started as a friendly fire quickly turned into assassination. What did i do to jump to number one in your hit list?
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You were right I don’t think I was good for your mental health But I highly doubt anyone could be.
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There are days I want to pretend you are just a call away.
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Two showers a day and I’m still a thousand more from washing you away.
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