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How many wars will it take us to learn that only the dead return?

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Andrea Gibson
Age: 49
Born: 1975
Born: August 13
Poet
Calais
Maine
Andrew Gibson
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Many
Wars
Return
Dead
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War

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...And for every day you paint the war, take a week and paint the beauty, the color, the shape of the landscape you’re marching towards. Everyone knows what you’re against show them what you’re for.
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You never wish on shooting stars. You wish on the ones that have the courage to shine where they are.
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Sometimes the most healing thing to do is remind ourselves over and over and over, other people feel this too.
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That night when you kissed me, I left a poem in your mouth, and you can hear some of the lines every time you breathe out.
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Everything but I LOVE YOU is small talk.
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Remember, you didn’t come here to write your heart out. You came to write it in.
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I'm never gonna wait that extra twenty minutes to text you back and I'm never gonna play hard to get when I know your life has been hard enough already.
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I would kiss you in the middle of the ocean during a lightning storm cuz I'd rather be left for dead than wondering what thunder sounds like.
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Sometimes the break in your heart is like the hole in the flute. Sometimes it’s the place where the music comes through.
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Love isn't always magic. But if I offered my body to the magician, if I told him to cut me in half so after that I could come to you whole and ask for you back would you listen for this dark alley love song? For the winter we heated our home from the steam off our own bodies?
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Cause I might be naked and lonely Shaking branches for bones But I'm still time zones away From who I was the day before we met You were the first mile Where my heart broke a sweat And I wish you were here I wish you'd never left But mostly I wish you well I wish you my very very best.
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But when I thought I hit bottom, it started hitting back.
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Forests may be gorgeous but there is nothing more alive than a tree that learns how to grow in a cemetery.
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I’ve written this poem before but always through a window, never through an open door.
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My mouth is a fire escape. The words coming out don’t care that they are naked. There is something burning in there.
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Fear is only a verb if you let it be. Don't you dare let go of my hand!
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Autumn is the hardest season. The leaves are all falling, and they're falling like they're falling in love with the ground.
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You can find me on the moon waxing and waning. My heart full of petals, every single one begging 'Love me, love me, love me. Whoever I am. Whoever I become.'
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I’d cut my soul into a million different pieces just to form a constellation to light your way home. I’d write love poems to the parts of yourself you can’t stand. I’d stand in the shadows of your heart and tell you I’m not afraid of your dark.
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