i cannot breathe in any more sadness-suffering.
CHARLIE GILBERTi cannot breathe in any more sadness-suffering.
CHARLIE GILBERTIf you didn’t want her to scream so loud you shouldn’t have tried to strangle her voice -both love & violence are a choice.
CHARLIE GILBERTHis fear of exile led to mine -there was room for both of us in belonging.
CHARLIE GILBERTHe told me ‘I must be a story’ but for me-he always was.
CHARLIE GILBERTYou blame your father but it was your mother who did not keep you safe -why you won’t trust women.
CHARLIE GILBERTHe said ‘words are nothing but clumsy’-as he watched poetry fall from my lips.
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 am not here to fight with you I’m here to sit with you in love- Lets take the gloves off.
CHARLIE GILBERTYou make the pain I make it art-the girl with the soft heart.
CHARLIE GILBERTSure she would drink & digress with you but i undressed your soul. He sank in the shallow end.
CHARLIE GILBERTHouses built on heartbreak is that what you call love.
CHARLIE GILBERTEverything was hard & she kept going-we grow in our valleys.
CHARLIE GILBERTYour poems are so beautiful I almost forgot the pain you lived to pen them-from pain comes with beautiful things.
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 GILBERTI became fluent in all their leaving i became in all the grieving.
CHARLIE GILBERT