Speak to me again, so I’m writing another poem I’ll never send.
MAGGIE BOWYERWhen you are starved for a moment of relief, you’ll eat their poison by the mouth full, no questions until the digestion leads to new problems.
More Maggie Bowyer Quotes
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Your words hit harder than your fists, Neither missed.
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I screamed and cried but only because i wanted to make this right. Instead, I sat alone, shivering watching the evening turn into night.
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Am i meant to untangle the knots in my own muscles? Do they think its as simple as a few tangles in my own hair?
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Don’t you know that shedding your pain only makes it reverberate.
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The grace of being home is that i no longer have to waste energy on looking okay.
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My wells have run dry, but not because i miss you any less, I finally accept that this is life.
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There are days I want to pretend you are just a call away.
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I want to find my soul rather than lose it.
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There was no way to save her. Believe me i wanted to. But how could I, when I could barely save myself.
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You’d read between my lines, You’d seen truths I had tried to deny all my life. You had read poems that were tucked neatly under my sheets, words I never meant anyone to read.
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I’m stoned on a nice boat ride. I fake a smile, you fake a life.
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I want to carve my insides out with a rusty spoon. It would be less painful.
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I am an emotional equation, continually miscalculation, escalation, you should be elated!
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If we found out tomorrow that oxygen was poisonous I would try to spend forever in your exhales.
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On my worst days, my brain tries to trick me into wishing I stayed. It’s really trying to convince me that I didn’t deserve to survive.
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