December sinks in like a cold shouldered old friend. I try to stretch, reach my toes, but my own bones feel covered in snow.
MAGGIE BOWYERI’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.
More Maggie Bowyer Quotes
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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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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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I’m actually great at being alone. It was being abandoned that was hard.
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I am an emotional equation, continually miscalculation, escalation, you should be elated!
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I’m stoned on a nice boat ride. I fake a smile, you fake a life.
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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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There are days I want to pretend you are just a call away.
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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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Be proud of a body that bares the burden of being buried only to bloom.
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Is this pain ripping me, ripping us apart, really just psychosomatic?
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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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Speak to me again, so I’m writing another poem I’ll never send.
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Two showers a day and I’m still a thousand more from washing you away.
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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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