With all these past fears still written on my skin, it bruises me to let you in. Trauma’s that this body holds, still guard these tactile lips untold.
GEMMA IVERSENExperience has taught me to tell the difference between a man that wants to tame me, mute my voice and claim me, and a man that is bold enough to let me be free.
More Gemma Iversen Quotes
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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.
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Experience has taught me to tell the difference between a man that wants to tame me, mute my voice and claim me, and a man that is bold enough to let me be free.
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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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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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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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And just like that, fostered beneath the stars. curated by moonlight, our love became incarnate.
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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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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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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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You don’t deserve her, but the least you can do is damned well love her.
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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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Somedays, I just need to switch it all off, and turn to the trees.
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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 sell my pain in beauty. Wrap it in words. Package it in pleasantries, and deliver it in verse.
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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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