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.
MAGGIE BOWYERSpeak to me again, so I’m writing another poem I’ll never send.
More Maggie Bowyer Quotes
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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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I was only ten the first time I remember getting stabbed. My agony pierced the air with a sickening scream.
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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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The last time you backstabbed me I grew a backbone. I should thank you.
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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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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’m stoned on a nice boat ride. I fake a smile, you fake a life.
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I am an emotional equation, continually miscalculation, escalation, you should be elated!
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Two showers a day and I’m still a thousand more from washing you away.
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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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The very act of surviving in a world that does nothing but reject you is an act of revolution.
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I want to find my soul rather than lose it.
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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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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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Speak to me again, so I’m writing another poem I’ll never send.
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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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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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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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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 days I want to pretend you are just a call away.
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Your words hit harder than your fists, Neither missed.
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Is this pain ripping me, ripping us apart, really just psychosomatic?
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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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There are versions of myself I will never recover, stolen by moments i will forever remember.
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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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