Persevering Phoenix Quotes

“I don’t need saving –
I’m not your damsel in distress
And you’re not my knight in tarnished armor.
.....
Don’t spare me,
Certainly don’t protect me,
I won’t break.”
― Jenn Waterman, Persevering Phoenix

“Mistaken

Memories are all that I have to anchor me,
Yet they’re often what leaves me unhinged,
Falling from that could I thought was so safe.
You came to a place, where – besides me –
You were uninvited.
Leaving, you promised me I could always
Count on you.

I especially miss that.

My kindred spirit,
The one who promised to love me,
Only to prove yourself a liar –
Going from Prince Charming
To the Big Bad Wolf,
Truly thinking only of yourself

Leaving me
With empty promises, alone in the dark,
Burnt from the initial spark
Of what I mistook for love,
Making my memories a false refuge.

(full poem)”
― Jenn Waterman, Persevering Phoenix

“The mirror betrays nothing.

(end line of "Duality" - one of my personal favorites)”
― Jenn Waterman, Persevering Phoenix

“(this I wrote for our troops, amazing men & women serving our country - sometimes with great sacrifice.)

Owen’s Own

His girls were his world,
He built his life around them.
Their laughs,
Their smiles,
Their tears,
Their sorrows;
He fought for it all.
Thousands of miles away,
Day after day,
He fought to keep them safe,
Keep them from harm,
But being gone, he could do it all.
They weren’t hurt, his girls,
But they weren’t safe anymore.
Finally he could come home
And truly protect his own.”
― Jenn Waterman, Persevering Phoenix

“Consolations are empty when you’re alone”
― Jenn Waterman, Persevering Phoenix

“Bring me somewhere new
Away from this place;
Its memories haunt me
And I wish, longing to forget”
― Jenn Waterman, Persevering Phoenix

“There is no norm, no safety net,
No way to rationalize what you’d rather forget”
― Jenn Waterman, Persevering Phoenix

“Hiding amongst the thick shadows,
Beckoning like a seductive siren of the deep ocean,
Tempting with a false, impossible desire”
― Jenn Waterman, Persevering Phoenix