Deep within, I still exist; a brighter, happy me. Just look beyond my outer casing.
GEMMA IVERSENFool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, and watch me spark like a match tossed to tinder.
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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I am so sorry that my feelings have the audacity to not be contained within one short sentence.
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You demanded silence and I became sonorous.
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Guess who’s flying free now? You, a mere speck of the ground. And I, lost and found amongst the clouds.
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Still, I wrote. Even when the police where coming. Even when my whole body hurt, and the slightest sound would make me quake.
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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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And again I’m in your arms. Searching your skin for some small comfort. Your touch, this time, is love’s purest tender. Your hold, for now, is a fortress I feel safe in. Maybe, once more, I can call your body home.
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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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I wished for nothing more than the warm crushing of your hold. It would be strong enough to shield me from the world as I grew old.
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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 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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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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Go on then, color me broken whilst I feign my surprise. Let me summon some sorrow for this wreckage inside.
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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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