I’m actually great at being alone. It was being abandoned that was hard.
MAGGIE BOWYERDecember sinks in like a cold shouldered old friend. I try to stretch, reach my toes, but my own bones feel covered in snow.
More Maggie Bowyer Quotes
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The grace of being home is that i no longer have to waste energy on looking okay.
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Speak to me again, so I’m writing another poem I’ll never send.
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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 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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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’m stoned on a nice boat ride. I fake a smile, you fake a life.
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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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There are versions of myself I will never recover, stolen by moments i will forever remember.
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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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I should have known the moment your lips met mine that we were having an affair with borrowed time.
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I am an emotional equation, continually miscalculation, escalation, you should be elated!
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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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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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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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The very act of surviving in a world that does nothing but reject you is an act of revolution.
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