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You can stand on the cliff of my heart and shout nothing but ‘ugly’ through me. I promise all I will echo back is ‘Beauty, beauty, you have always been beauty

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Andrea Gibson
Age: 49
Born: 1975
Born: August 13
Poet
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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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Know you belong here. You belong here and everything you feel is okay.
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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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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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