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There are days I want to pretend you are just a call away.

Maggie Bowyer

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.
MAGGIE BOWYER

Brain Deserve Stay Survive Worst
Speak to me again, so I’m writing another poem I’ll never send.
MAGGIE BOWYER

Again Poetry Speak
I was only ten the first time I remember getting stabbed. My agony pierced the air with a sickening scream.
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Agony Air Pain Scream Stab Time
I should have known the moment your lips met mine that we were having an affair with borrowed time.
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Affair Borrow Know Lips Mine Moment Time
You’ve retracted your rays of warmth. You’ve pulled the clouds to cover sunlight. I think everyone is growing more concerned as the days keep passing and you’re still absent.
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Absence Growth Ray Sun Warmth Yourself
I 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.
MAGGIE BOWYER

Break Up God Hurt Memories Picture Scream
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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Poison Problem relief Starve Yourself
Be proud of a body that bares the burden of being buried only to bloom.
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Bloom Body Bury One Liner Self Love
I screamed and cried but only because i wanted to make this right. Instead, I sat alone, shivering watching the evening turn into night.
MAGGIE BOWYER

Cry Evening Night Right Scream Shiver
The last time you backstabbed me I grew a backbone. I should thank you.
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Thank You Yourself
There are days I want to pretend you are just a call away.
MAGGIE BOWYER

Away Call Pretend Yourself
My wells have run dry, but not because i miss you any less, I finally accept that this is life.
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Acceptance Dry Life Miss Yourself Well
If we found out tomorrow that oxygen was poisonous I would try to spend forever in your exhales.
MAGGIE BOWYER

Forever Oxygen Poison Relationship
Don’t you know that shedding your pain only makes it reverberate.
MAGGIE BOWYER

Hurt Pain Reverberate Yourself
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.
MAGGIE BOWYER

Friend Life Relationship Truth Word Yourself
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.
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Body Bruise Hurt Pain Relationship Silence Suffering

There are days I want to pretend you are just a call away.

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