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.
MAGGIE BOWYERI am an emotional equation, continually miscalculation, escalation, you should be elated!
More Maggie Bowyer Quotes
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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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I want to carve my insides out with a rusty spoon. It would be less painful.
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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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I’m actually great at being alone. It was being abandoned that was hard.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Don’t you know that shedding your pain only makes it reverberate.
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There are days I want to pretend you are just a call away.
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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 was only ten the first time I remember getting stabbed. My agony pierced the air with a sickening scream.
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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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December sinks in like a cold shouldered old friend. I try to stretch, reach my toes, but my own bones feel covered in snow.
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Be proud of a body that bares the burden of being buried only to bloom.
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Speak to me again, so I’m writing another poem I’ll never send.
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I am an emotional equation, continually miscalculation, escalation, you should be elated!
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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 want to find my soul rather than lose it.
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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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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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