The grace of being home is that i no longer have to waste energy on looking okay.
MAGGIE BOWYERHave 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.
More Maggie Bowyer Quotes
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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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There are versions of myself I will never recover, stolen by moments i will forever remember.
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Your words hit harder than your fists, Neither missed.
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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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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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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 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.
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Speak to me again, so I’m writing another poem I’ll never send.
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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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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 am an emotional equation, continually miscalculation, escalation, you should be elated!
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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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There are days I want to pretend you are just a call away.
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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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Don’t you know that shedding your pain only makes it reverberate.
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