Guess who’s flying free now? You, a mere speck of the ground. And I, lost and found amongst the clouds.
GEMMA IVERSENShe can shake away the recent frost of misery and pain. As life takes in a vivid sense of meaning once again.
More Gemma Iversen Quotes
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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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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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Somedays, I just need to switch it all off, and turn to the trees.
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But are they protection or a cage? These ribs that ensnare my heart so.
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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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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 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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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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You’re a beautiful enigma and warmed in charming wit.
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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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A seed of suspicion. A sprout of doubt. A sapling of worry. But what an oak of strength I’ve become.
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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 was told I could break free if I wanted to. That my wings would mend with time. But how can I mend a part of me that was never built to weather a storm?
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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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