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.
GEMMA IVERSENSomedays, I just need to switch it all off, and turn to the trees.
More Gemma Iversen Quotes
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You demanded silence and I became sonorous.
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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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Deep within, I still exist; a brighter, happy me. Just look beyond my outer casing.
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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’re a beautiful enigma and warmed in charming wit.
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I’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.
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Do I need you? No. But I want you. Like the fish seek warmer waters and the birds the brighter skies.
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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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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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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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And if it’s true that trust, like happiness is a choice, then I’ll take this leap of faith.
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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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I am so sorry that my feelings have the audacity to not be contained within one short sentence.
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