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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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Andrea Gibson
Age: 49
Born: 1975
Born: August 13
Poet
Calais
Maine
Andrew Gibson
May
Gorgeous
Nothing
Forests
Poetry
Grow
Tree
Grows
Alive
Cemetery
Inspirational
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Before I die, I want to be somebody’s favorite hiding place, the place they can put everything they know they need to survive, every secret, every solitude, every nervous prayer, and be absolutely certain I will keep it safe. I will keep it safe.
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If love did not exist, I would be so goddamn sane.
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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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I intend to leave this life so shattered there's gonna have to be a thousand separate heavens for all of my flying parts
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This is my body. It is no one's but mine.
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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 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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We're boxed in and labeled before we're ever able to speak who we believe we are or who we dream we'll become.
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If a tree fell in the forest, and you were the only one there to hear it if its fall to the ground didn’t make a sound, would you panic in fear that you didn’t exist, or would you bask in the bliss of your nothingness?
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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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Touch me 'til my ribs become piano keys.
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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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Do you know they found land mines in woman's souls.
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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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My heart is a parachute that has never opened in time.
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You panic button collector. You clock of beautiful ticks. You run out the door if you need to. You flock to the front row of your own class. You feather everything until you know you can always, always shake like a leaf on my family tree and know you belong here. You belong here and everything you feel is okay. Everything you feel is okay.
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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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Yesterday i carved your name into the surface of an ice cube then held it against my chest til it melted into my aching pores today i cried so hard the neighbors knocked on my door and asked if I wanted to borrow some sugar.
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I thought, The flowers, save the flowers... I never thought for a second we wouldn't save the people
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Someday we will dare to trade good for true
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