You demanded silence and I became sonorous.
GEMMA IVERSENYou demanded silence and I became sonorous.
GEMMA IVERSENStill, I wrote. Even when the police where coming. Even when my whole body hurt, and the slightest sound would make me quake.
GEMMA IVERSENI can fade to darkness too. Through fear or want or need, its true. If only to escape the truth; that loneliness abides with you.
GEMMA IVERSENAnd just like that, fostered beneath the stars. curated by moonlight, our love became incarnate.
GEMMA IVERSENI’ve brought myself back to life more times than I can remember. And when I say I brought myself back, I mean, I have clawed, clambered and coaxed myself from the precipice of self destruction.
GEMMA IVERSENHe 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.
GEMMA IVERSENI am ruled by emotion. She is a fickle leader of a volatile kingdom, where conniving skies cast intemperate clouds over my constitution.
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.
GEMMA IVERSENDeep within, I still exist; a brighter, happy me. Just look beyond my outer casing.
GEMMA IVERSENYou don’t deserve her, but the least you can do is damned well love her.
GEMMA IVERSENYou 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.
GEMMA IVERSENDo I need you? No. But I want you. Like the fish seek warmer waters and the birds the brighter skies.
GEMMA IVERSENYou’re a beautiful enigma and warmed in charming wit.
GEMMA IVERSENRise and shine, rise and shine. Fractious hope in life divine. Rise and flicker, rise and fade. Til’ death’s clasp I can’t evade.
GEMMA IVERSENSomedays, I just need to switch it all off, and turn to the trees.
GEMMA IVERSENGo on then, color me broken whilst I feign my surprise. Let me summon some sorrow for this wreckage inside.
GEMMA IVERSEN