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.
GEMMA IVERSENI 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.
More Gemma Iversen Quotes
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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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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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I can fade to darkness too. Through fear or want or need, its true. If only to escape the truth; that loneliness abides with you.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Deep within, I still exist; a brighter, happy me. Just look beyond my outer casing.
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Go on then, color me broken whilst I feign my surprise. Let me summon some sorrow for this wreckage inside.
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You’re a beautiful enigma and warmed in charming wit.
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Call me reckless, call me hopeless, say it to me, implore. Call me feckless, call me helpless, call me all those things and more. All I ask if that you heed the one good reason you’re ignored. Judge me all you like, its not you I do this for.
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