He says your poems whisper too loudly of ugly truths. He forgets he authors the endings.
CHARLIE GILBERTHe says your poems whisper too loudly of ugly truths. He forgets he authors the endings.
More Charlie Gilbert Quotes
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He made me raw & fragile & reminded me of all the things I had not healed.
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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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You can water a plant but it has to want to grow.
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You are the only one who lost -the rest stayed.
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I became fluent in all their leaving i became in all the grieving.
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Nothing is healed in anger that was made in love -take the gloves off.
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He tried everything to silence her except for kindness and remorse -only love softens a voice.
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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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Children raised by mothers who do not keep their children sheltered from the wrath of their fathers, end up mistrusting women.
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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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You make the pain I make it art-the girl with the soft heart.
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Everything was hard & she kept going-we grow in our valleys.
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To be held safe in our vulnerabilities -isn’t that what we should call love?
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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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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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