There are days I want to pretend you are just a call away.
MAGGIE BOWYEROn 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.
More Maggie Bowyer Quotes
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Don’t you know that shedding your pain only makes it reverberate.
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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 should have known when I started to fall in love, It was never meant to last long.
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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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Speak to me again, so I’m writing another poem I’ll never send.
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The last time you backstabbed me I grew a backbone. I should thank you.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Be proud of a body that bares the burden of being buried only to bloom.
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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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These words crash over and threaten to destroy me. I cannot find the stars so far beneath these waves of insecurity and mistrust, their light has seemed to vanish.
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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’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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Have I been buried alive by chronic pain? I can taste the dirt as they put me in the earth, thick on my lips like the honey that drips down my lips.
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Two showers a day and I’m still a thousand more from washing you away.
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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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The grace of being home is that i no longer have to waste energy on looking okay.
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I’m actually great at being alone. It was being abandoned that was hard.
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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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You were right I don’t think I was good for your mental health But I highly doubt anyone could be.
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Your words hit harder than your fists, Neither missed.
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I want to find my soul rather than lose it.
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