The grace of being home is that i no longer have to waste energy on looking okay.
MAGGIE BOWYERYou’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.
More Maggie Bowyer Quotes
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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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Don’t you know that shedding your pain only makes it reverberate.
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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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Is this pain ripping me, ripping us apart, really just psychosomatic?
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When you are starved for a moment of relief, you’ll eat their poison by the mouth full, no questions until the digestion leads to new problems.
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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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What started as a friendly fire quickly turned into assassination. What did i do to jump to number one in your hit list?
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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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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 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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There are versions of myself I will never recover, stolen by moments i will forever remember.
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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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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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Two showers a day and I’m still a thousand more from washing you away.
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