You demanded silence and I became sonorous.
GEMMA IVERSENDo I need you? No. But I want you. Like the fish seek warmer waters and the birds the brighter skies.
More Gemma Iversen Quotes
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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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Deep within, I still exist; a brighter, happy me. Just look beyond my outer casing.
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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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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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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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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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Let me show you how words can make merriment from the most bitter melancholy. How words softly spoken, can heal even the most insidious of wounds.
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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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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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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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Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, and watch me spark like a match tossed to tinder.
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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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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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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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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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