If you think you are the only one allowed to act in anger then no-one will ever be enough-my pain matters.
CHARLIE GILBERTIf you think you are the only one allowed to act in anger then no-one will ever be enough-my pain matters.
CHARLIE GILBERTMy sweet girl: of course he has to object project & reject for if he didn’t he’d have to admit that he loves you -wise words from her therapist’s office.
CHARLIE GILBERTI live in fear go grieving you-please be the love that doesn’t leave.
CHARLIE GILBERTThe fog is lifting I am healing- You don’t own my heart.
CHARLIE GILBERTYou make the pain I make it art-the girl with the soft heart.
CHARLIE GILBERTHis fear of exile led to mine -there was room for both of us in belonging.
CHARLIE GILBERTHe made me raw & fragile & reminded me of all the things I had not healed.
CHARLIE GILBERTChildren raised by mothers who do not keep their children sheltered from the wrath of their fathers, end up mistrusting women.
CHARLIE GILBERTHe was so selfish that he refused her shelter from waves & winds all while claiming from his lighthouse that he loved her -he became the storm she needed saving from.
CHARLIE GILBERTEverything was hard & she kept going-we grow in our valleys.
CHARLIE GILBERTI became fluent in all their leaving i became in all the grieving.
CHARLIE GILBERTi cannot breathe in any more sadness-suffering.
CHARLIE GILBERTHe tried everything to silence her except for kindness and remorse -only love softens a voice.
CHARLIE GILBERTIs your love the storm or the lighthouse?
CHARLIE GILBERTYou blame your father but it was your mother who did not keep you safe -why you won’t trust women.
CHARLIE GILBERTYour poems are so beautiful I almost forgot the pain you lived to pen them-from pain comes with beautiful things.
CHARLIE GILBERT