You don’t deserve her, but the least you can do is damned well love her.
GEMMA IVERSENBut are they protection or a cage? These ribs that ensnare my heart so.
More Gemma Iversen Quotes
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What’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.
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Welcome to the heart of me, the purest, uncut parts of me. These inmost fragments that you see, from pain and passion came to be, in blemished, unclothed intimacy, existing here as poetry.
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He loves me. He loves me not. Perhaps I’m one that fate forgot. Perhaps I wasn’t made for this, to lose myself in love’s first kiss.
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I strip. In low light. In the silence of my room. I strip like an act of confession. Unclothing my meticulous mind and teasing language from the vestry of my soul.
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A seed of suspicion. A sprout of doubt. A sapling of worry. But what an oak of strength I’ve become.
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You pack your whole life away as many times as I have, and it’s no more than routine. But in you I’ve found a home, more so than anywhere I’ve been.
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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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And just like that, fostered beneath the stars. curated by moonlight, our love became incarnate.
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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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I sell my pain in beauty. Wrap it in words. Package it in pleasantries, and deliver it in verse.
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Go on then, color me broken whilst I feign my surprise. Let me summon some sorrow for this wreckage inside.
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I looked again at my new ring and in that moment all I knew, was that the greatest of adventures would be revealed in with you.
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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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But are they protection or a cage? These ribs that ensnare my heart so.
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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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