Your poems are so beautiful I almost forgot the pain you lived to pen them-from pain comes with beautiful things.
CHARLIE GILBERTHe made me raw & fragile & reminded me of all the things I had not healed.
More Charlie Gilbert Quotes
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Everything was hard & she kept going-we grow in our valleys.
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Sure she would drink & digress with you but i undressed your soul. He sank in the shallow end.
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I became fluent in all their leaving i became in all the grieving.
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He said ‘words are nothing but clumsy’-as he watched poetry fall from my lips.
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If 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.
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While you’re posting pretty pictures I am writing love letters to you love & our priorities.
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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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Houses built on heartbreak is that what you call love.
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He told me ‘I must be a story’ but for me-he always was.
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It is not your job to carry every burden to heal every heart-your love is a divine blessing.
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You blame your father but it was your mother who did not keep you safe -why you won’t trust women.
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You can water a plant but it has to want to grow.
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I said “I need a love that won’t break me” while still choosing from broken boys-self-destruction.
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Is your love the storm or the lighthouse?
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i cannot breathe in any more sadness-suffering.
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