I’m actually great at being alone. It was being abandoned that was hard.
MAGGIE BOWYERSpeak to me again, so I’m writing another poem I’ll never send.
More Maggie Bowyer Quotes
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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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I am an emotional equation, continually miscalculation, escalation, you should be elated!
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I was only ten the first time I remember getting stabbed. My agony pierced the air with a sickening scream.
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Your words hit harder than your fists, Neither missed.
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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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The last time you backstabbed me I grew a backbone. I should thank you.
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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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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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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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If we found out tomorrow that oxygen was poisonous I would try to spend forever in your exhales.
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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’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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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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I should have known the moment your lips met mine that we were having an affair with borrowed time.
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