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Hey, are you a boy or a — never mind, can I have a push on the swing?” And some day, y’all, when we grow up, it’s all gonna be that simple.

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Andrea Gibson
Age: 49
Born: 1975
Born: August 13
Poet
Calais
Maine
Andrew Gibson
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Boys
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I have never met a heavy heart that wasn’t a phone booth with a red cape inside Some people will never understand the kind of superpower it takes for some people to just walk outside Some days I know my smile looks like the gutter of a falling house But my hands are always holding tight to the ripchord of believing
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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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How many wars will it take us to learn that only the dead return?
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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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I don't have a single plan for my life more important than learning to love people well.
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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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Touch me 'til my ribs become piano keys.
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Remind me that the most fertile lands were built by the fires of volcanoes.
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Know you belong here. You belong here and everything you feel is okay.
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I'm good at loving books. I'm good at loving soft bed sheets. I'm good at loving coffees and teas. I am good at loving things that can't love me back, that don't have the power to leave. And maybe, that's why I love them.
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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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The holy have done more damage to this world than the devil ever could.
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Touch me ‘til my ribs become piano keys, ‘til there is sheet music scrolled across the inside of my lungs.
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Say this is what the pain made of you: an open, open, open road, an avalanche of feel it all.
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Commit to loving yourself completely. It’s the most radical thing you will do in your lifetime.
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This is my heartbeat like yours, it is a hatchet It can build a house or tear one down.
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