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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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Andrea Gibson
Age: 49
Born: 1975
Born: August 13
Poet
Calais
Maine
Andrew Gibson
Every
Color
Week
Beauty
Marching
Show
Landscape
Everyone
Shape
War
Towards
Shows
Paint
Take
Shapes

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But when I thought I hit bottom, it started hitting back.
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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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And we were Banksy on an overpass in New Orleans spray-painting porch lights on the hurricane. We were welcome mats for the un-forgiven. We never sold our windpipes to make a living. We were the letters sent to the wrong address, but opened anyway. We opened anyway.
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You are not weak just because your heart feels so empty.
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You have a heart of gold and I am kneeling in your bloodstream panning for the only thing that has ever felt like home.
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I have always been comfortable weathering the storm. I’d like to get more comfortable weathering the sunny day.
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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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Do you know they found land mines in woman's souls.
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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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You never wish on shooting stars. You wish on the ones that have the courage to shine where they are.
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Every lover is a storm chaser. Every good heart has lost its roof.
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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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If love did not exist, I would be so goddamn sane.
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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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