Don’t you know that shedding your pain only makes it reverberate.
MAGGIE BOWYERThe grace of being home is that i no longer have to waste energy on looking okay.
More Maggie Bowyer Quotes
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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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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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There are days I want to pretend you are just a call 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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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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The grace of being home is that i no longer have to waste energy on looking okay.
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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 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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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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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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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 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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