A seed of suspicion. A sprout of doubt. A sapling of worry. But what an oak of strength I’ve become.
GEMMA IVERSENChampagne 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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And just like that, fostered beneath the stars. curated by moonlight, our love became incarnate.
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I couldn’t care less how much money a person has, or what their job title is. Show me a person who seeks out the beauty in a wreckage; who’ll take the remnants of their troubles and stitch a sail from the tatters.
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Lets conduct a study. Let’s pull up a jury. Are you a beautiful person? or inclined to wanton fury.
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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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Somedays, I just need to switch it all off, and turn to the trees.
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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’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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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 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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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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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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You don’t deserve her, but the least you can do is damned well love her.
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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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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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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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Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, and watch me spark like a match tossed to tinder.
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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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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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Burnt mirror, smeared glass. Do you like what you see? If my body is a temple, then my poetry is the darkest vestry. My mouth is a chalice, and these words are sacramental.
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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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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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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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