December sinks in like a cold shouldered old friend. I try to stretch, reach my toes, but my own bones feel covered in snow.
MAGGIE BOWYERI was only ten the first time I remember getting stabbed. My agony pierced the air with a sickening scream.
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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I should have known when I started to fall in love, It was never meant to last long.
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Be proud of a body that bares the burden of being buried only to bloom.
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I’m not sure if I’m to blame for all my relationship failures. But when I look at the wreckage I am the only commonality.
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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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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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My wells have run dry, but not because i miss you any less, I finally accept that this is life.
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Your words hit harder than your fists, Neither missed.
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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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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 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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Don’t you know that shedding your pain only makes it reverberate.
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I’m stoned on a nice boat ride. I fake a smile, you fake a life.
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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 very act of surviving in a world that does nothing but reject you is an act of revolution.
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