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A doctor once told me I feel too much. I said, so does god. that’s why you can see the grand canyon from the moon.

Andrea Gibson

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Andrea Gibson
Age: 49
Born: 1975
Born: August 13
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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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We were all born on days when too many people died in terrible ways, but you still have to call it a birthday.
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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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So guess what, if I ever have my own team I am picking everyone first even the worst kid and the kid with the stutter like a skipping record 'cause I know all of us are scratched, even if you can't hear it when we speak.
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Last night I saw your ghost pedalling a bicycle with a basket towards a moon as full as my heavy head and I wanted nothing more than to be sitting in that basket like ET with my glowing heart glowing right through my chest and my glowing finger pointing in the direction of our home.
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I write because it is while I'm writing that I feel most connected to why we're here. I write because silence is a heavy weight to carry. I write to remember. I write to heal. I write to let the air in. I write as a practice of listening.
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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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If you’re handing out flashlights in the dark, start handing out stars.
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We are all instruments pulling the bows across our own lungs. Windmills, still startling in every storm. Have you ever seen a newborn blinking at the light? I wanna do that every day. I wanna know what the kite called itself when it got away, when it escaped into the night.
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I’ve written this poem before but always through a window, never through an open door.
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Our insanity is not that we see people who aren’t there. It’s that we ignore the ones who are.
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We all have bullets beneath our skin we pray our lovers won't flinch at when they find.
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I'm not lookin' for someone who can save me. Life rafts might keep you afloat but they rarely get you anywhere and I've got places I wanna go. So break me in two, peel back my rib cage and cover every page of my heart with love poems you will burn someday.
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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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To think, a sweater, is made entirely of knots. My stomach could clothe a village.
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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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I know you think this world is too dark to even dream in color, but I’ve seen flowers bloom at midnight. I’ve seen kites fly in gray skies and they were real close to looking like the sunrise, and sometime it takes the most wounded wings the most broken things to notice how strong the breeze is, how precious the flight.
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Love is like sunshine. Sometimes you have to get burned to know you were there. I want to know that I'm here.
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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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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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