She stopped reading over the prologue she realized she had too many chapters left to write-moving on.
CHARLIE GILBERTShe stopped reading over the prologue she realized she had too many chapters left to write-moving on.
CHARLIE GILBERTI said “I need a love that won’t break me” while still choosing from broken boys-self-destruction.
CHARLIE GILBERTHe says your poems whisper too loudly of ugly truths. He forgets he authors the endings.
CHARLIE GILBERTYou blame your father but it was your mother who did not keep you safe -why you won’t trust women.
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 GILBERTI 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.
CHARLIE GILBERTMy 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.
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 GILBERTIf you think you are the only one allowed to act in anger then no-one will ever be enough-my pain matters.
CHARLIE GILBERTI wept that everything he made was pretty I forgot that I, too, was art-the girl with the soft heart.
CHARLIE GILBERTRoot yourself in love.
CHARLIE GILBERTYou are the only one who lost -the rest stayed.
CHARLIE GILBERTHe is the story I cannot finish he is the poem I’ll always miss.
CHARLIE GILBERTHe made me raw & fragile & reminded me of all the things I had not healed.
CHARLIE GILBERTI am proud of the love I gave you it was laced in loyalty & light.
CHARLIE GILBERTTo be held safe in our vulnerabilities -isn’t that what we should call love?
CHARLIE GILBERT