I’d rather suffer in silence than be subjected to deafening stares. I feel like I’m in an abusive relationship with my body, no one can see the bruises.
MAGGIE BOWYERI can scream into every passing storm cloud, but that will not bring you back. I can yell at god as i sob over crinkled pictures, but all i can grasp are memories.
More Maggie Bowyer Quotes
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Is this pain ripping me, ripping us apart, really just psychosomatic?
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I want to carve my insides out with a rusty spoon. It would be less painful.
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Don’t you know that shedding your pain only makes it reverberate.
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I’m not sure if I’m to blame for all my relationship failures. But when I look at the wreckage I am the only commonality.
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There are versions of myself I will never recover, stolen by moments i will forever remember.
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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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I’m stoned on a nice boat ride. I fake a smile, you fake a life.
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I know I could be a petty queen, I could release all the receipts the way you treated me. But honey I’m happier living in peace than cruelty.
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Be proud of a body that bares the burden of being buried only to bloom.
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The burns didn’t hurt this badly when we were on fire.
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I hope you grow. I hope you change. It almost didn’t fazed me, when you chose her. You always wanted what you ‘have.
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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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Your words hit harder than your fists, Neither missed.
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There are days I want to pretend you are just a call away.
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The very act of surviving in a world that does nothing but reject you is an act of revolution.
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December sinks in like a cold shouldered old friend. I try to stretch, reach my toes, but my own bones feel covered in snow.
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When 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.
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It has been years now and you still remain, blood stains splattered across my brain. Its not that you were the first woman that I loved, you were the first person I memorized properly.
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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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The grace of being home is that i no longer have to waste energy on looking okay.
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I should have known the moment your lips met mine that we were having an affair with borrowed time.
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I should have known when I started to fall in love, It was never meant to last long.
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Two showers a day and I’m still a thousand more from washing you away.
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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 knew i was losing you, But when you tossed me into the mail box it finally hit me- I was losing me.
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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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