But are they protection or a cage? These ribs that ensnare my heart so.
GEMMA IVERSENWhat’s the end game? Well, when hate is your agenda, and my own is but love, then this game is not one in which you feature, and my end, is a far-flung world from yours.
More Gemma Iversen Quotes
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Somedays, I just need to switch it all off, and turn to the trees.
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I was told I could break free if I wanted to. That my wings would mend with time. But how can I mend a part of me that was never built to weather a storm?
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To all those I have loved and left, please know, it wasn’t you. For though I’d not wish you bereft, this heart seeks pastures new.
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You’re a beautiful enigma and warmed in charming wit.
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Experience has taught me to tell the difference between a man that wants to tame me, mute my voice and claim me, and a man that is bold enough to let me be free.
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I sell my pain in beauty. Wrap it in words. Package it in pleasantries, and deliver it in verse.
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Deep within, I still exist; a brighter, happy me. Just look beyond my outer casing.
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With all these past fears still written on my skin, it bruises me to let you in. Trauma’s that this body holds, still guard these tactile lips untold.
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Stay with me on this long night, til the dawn turns crow skies bright. Bring your skin to join with mine, and make in me a transient shine.
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You demanded silence and I became sonorous.
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How are you yet to learn? I don’t want grand gestures. I don’t want the world on a plate, the best life has to offer, material things or flashy gimmicks. I just want you with me.
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And if it’s true that trust, like happiness is a choice, then I’ll take this leap of faith.
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Champagne on our lips and desire on our minds and you can leave those painful memories behind and you can bring your hand to my heart as we kiss. There’s nothing else but us on nights like this.
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She can shake away the recent frost of misery and pain. As life takes in a vivid sense of meaning once again.
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Call me reckless, call me hopeless, say it to me, implore. Call me feckless, call me helpless, call me all those things and more. All I ask if that you heed the one good reason you’re ignored. Judge me all you like, its not you I do this for.
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