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.
GEMMA IVERSENLets conduct a study. Let’s pull up a jury. Are you a beautiful person? or inclined to wanton fury.
More Gemma Iversen Quotes
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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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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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Rise and shine, rise and shine. Fractious hope in life divine. Rise and flicker, rise and fade. Til’ death’s clasp I can’t evade.
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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 sell my pain in beauty. Wrap it in words. Package it in pleasantries, and deliver it in verse.
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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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You demanded silence and I became sonorous.
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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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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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You don’t deserve her, but the least you can do is damned well love her.
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I am ruled by emotion. She is a fickle leader of a volatile kingdom, where conniving skies cast intemperate clouds over my constitution.
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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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And if it’s true that trust, like happiness is a choice, then I’ll take this leap of faith.
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You’re a beautiful enigma and warmed in charming wit.
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But are they protection or a cage? These ribs that ensnare my heart so.
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