He made me raw & fragile & reminded me of all the things I had not healed.
CHARLIE GILBERTTo be held safe in our vulnerabilities -isn’t that what we should call love?
More Charlie Gilbert Quotes
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I am proud of the love I gave you it was laced in loyalty & light.
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Is your love the storm or the lighthouse?
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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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He says your poems whisper too loudly of ugly truths. He forgets he authors the endings.
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You are the only one who lost -the rest stayed.
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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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It is not your job to carry every burden to heal every heart-your love is a divine blessing.
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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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Nothing is healed in anger that was made in love -take the gloves off.
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I am not here to fight with you I’m here to sit with you in love- Lets take the gloves off.
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He said ‘words are nothing but clumsy’-as he watched poetry fall from my lips.
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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 is the story I cannot finish he is the poem I’ll always miss.
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