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.
MAGGIE BOWYERSpeak to me again, so I’m writing another poem I’ll never send.
More Maggie Bowyer Quotes
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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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The grace of being home is that i no longer have to waste energy on looking okay.
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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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Be proud of a body that bares the burden of being buried only to bloom.
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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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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’m stoned on a nice boat ride. I fake a smile, you fake a life.
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The last time you backstabbed me I grew a backbone. I should thank you.
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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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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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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 should have known the moment your lips met mine that we were having an affair with borrowed time.
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Your words hit harder than your fists, Neither missed.
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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 was only ten the first time I remember getting stabbed. My agony pierced the air with a sickening scream.
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