You are the only one who lost -the rest stayed.
CHARLIE GILBERTYour poems are so beautiful I almost forgot the pain you lived to pen them-from pain comes with beautiful things.
More Charlie Gilbert Quotes
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To be held safe in our vulnerabilities -isn’t that what we should call love?
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He made me raw & fragile & reminded me of all the things I had not healed.
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I live in fear go grieving you-please be the love that doesn’t leave.
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If you think you are the only one allowed to act in anger then no-one will ever be enough-my pain matters.
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I became fluent in all their leaving i became in all the grieving.
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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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His fear of exile led to mine -there was room for both of us in belonging.
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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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Root yourself in love.
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I will not beg you to keep me- I can house my own heart.
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He told me ‘I must be a story’ but for me-he always was.
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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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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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Everything was hard & she kept going-we grow in our valleys.
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My 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.
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