I said “I need a love that won’t break me” while still choosing from broken boys-self-destruction.
CHARLIE GILBERTHe made me raw & fragile & reminded me of all the things I had not healed.
More Charlie Gilbert Quotes
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I became fluent in all their leaving i became in all the grieving.
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He says your poems whisper too loudly of ugly truths. He forgets he authors the endings.
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He made me raw & fragile & reminded me of all the things I had not healed.
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He 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.
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I would have sat with you in the fire of any trauma how warm it must have felt to be met with a love like mine.
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I will not beg you to keep me- I can house my own heart.
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I wept that everything he made was pretty I forgot that I, too, was art-the girl with the soft heart.
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Houses built on heartbreak is that what you call love.
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To be held safe in our vulnerabilities -isn’t that what we should call love?
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Children raised by mothers who do not keep their children sheltered from the wrath of their fathers, end up mistrusting women.
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I live in fear go grieving you-please be the love that doesn’t leave.
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Root yourself in love.
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You are the only one who lost -the rest stayed.
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You make the pain I make it art-the girl with the soft heart.
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If you didn’t want her to scream so loud you shouldn’t have tried to strangle her voice -both love & violence are a choice.
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