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Remember, you didn’t come here to write your heart out. You came to write it in.

Andrea Gibson

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Andrea Gibson
Age: 49
Born: 1975
Born: August 13
Poet
Calais
Maine
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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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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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When your heart is broken, you plant seeds in the cracks and pray for rain.
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Yes, I like girls Yes, I like boys I like boys who like boys I like girls who wear toys and girls who don't I like girls who don't call themselves girls Crew cuts or curls or that really bad hair phase in between.
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You are not weak just because your heart feels so empty.
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Everyone’s chest is a living room wall with awkwardly placed photographs hiding fist-shaped holes.
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Love isn't always magic. Sometimes it's just melting.
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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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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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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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I said to the sun, ‘Tell me about the big bang.’ The sun said, ‘it hurts to become.
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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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and I wonder if Beethoven held his breath the first time his fingers touched the keys the same way a soldier holds his breath the first time his finger clicks the trigger. We all have different reasons for forgetting to breathe.
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But when I thought I hit bottom, it started hitting back. There is no bruise like the bruise loneliness kicks into your spine.
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But when I thought I hit bottom, it started hitting back.
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The trauma said, ‘Don’t write these poems. Nobody wants to hear you cry about the grief inside your bones.
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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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You keep worrying you’re taking up too much space. I wish you’d let yourself be the milky way.
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But whatever However Whenever this ends I want you to know That right now I love you forever
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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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