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.
GEMMA IVERSENI can fade to darkness too. Through fear or want or need, its true. If only to escape the truth; that loneliness abides with you.
More Gemma Iversen Quotes
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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 am so sorry that my feelings have the audacity to not be contained within one short sentence.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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But are they protection or a cage? These ribs that ensnare my heart so.
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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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Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, and watch me spark like a match tossed to tinder.
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Deep within, I still exist; a brighter, happy me. Just look beyond my outer casing.
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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 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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