I am not here to fight with you I’m here to sit with you in love- Lets take the gloves off.
CHARLIE GILBERTI am not here to fight with you I’m here to sit with you in love- Lets take the gloves off.
CHARLIE GILBERTI will not beg you to keep me- I can house my own heart.
CHARLIE GILBERTTo be held safe in our vulnerabilities -isn’t that what we should call love?
CHARLIE GILBERTYou make the pain I make it art-the girl with the soft heart.
CHARLIE GILBERTEverything was hard & she kept going-we grow in our valleys.
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 GILBERTWhile you’re posting pretty pictures I am writing love letters to you love & our priorities.
CHARLIE GILBERTHe told me ‘I must be a story’ but for me-he always was.
CHARLIE GILBERTIf I could tell him anything it would be that he was his strongest bravest & most powerful in his most vulnerable of moments -the healed will not hurt you.
CHARLIE GILBERTI said “I need a love that won’t break me” while still choosing from broken boys-self-destruction.
CHARLIE GILBERTi cannot breathe in any more sadness-suffering.
CHARLIE GILBERTHe made me raw & fragile & reminded me of all the things I had not healed.
CHARLIE GILBERTHis fear of exile led to mine -there was room for both of us in belonging.
CHARLIE GILBERTHe says your poems whisper too loudly of ugly truths. He forgets he authors the endings.
CHARLIE GILBERTIs your love the storm or the lighthouse?
CHARLIE GILBERTYou are the only one who lost -the rest stayed.
CHARLIE GILBERT