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.
GEMMA IVERSENYou don’t deserve her, but the least you can do is damned well love her.
More Gemma Iversen Quotes
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Deep within, I still exist; a brighter, happy me. Just look beyond my outer casing.
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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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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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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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You’re a beautiful enigma and warmed in charming wit.
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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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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 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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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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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 demanded silence and I became sonorous.
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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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But are they protection or a cage? These ribs that ensnare my heart so.
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