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

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Andrea Gibson
Age: 49
Born: 1975
Born: August 13
Poet
Calais
Maine
Andrew Gibson
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Autumn is the hardest season. The leaves are all falling, and they're falling like they're falling in love with the ground.
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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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When your heart is broken, you plant seeds in the cracks and pray for rain.
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Love is like sunshine. Sometimes you have to get burned to know you were there. I want to know that I'm here.
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Let me also say I wanna make you sandwhiches, And soup, And peanut butter cookies, Though, the truth is peanutbutter is actually really bad for you 'cause they grow peanuts in old cotton fields to clean the toxins out of the soil, But hey, you like peanutbutter and I like you!
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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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Love isn't always magic. But if I offered my body to the magician, if I told him to cut me in half so after that I could come to you whole and ask for you back would you listen for this dark alley love song? For the winter we heated our home from the steam off our own bodies?
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Touch me 'til my ribs become piano keys.
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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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But when I thought I hit bottom, it started hitting back.
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My heart is a parachute that has never opened in time.
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If love did not exist, I would be so goddamn sane.
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The holy have done more damage to this world than the devil ever could.
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We have to create it is the only thing louder than destruction.
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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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Your ignorance keeps dismembering every piece of patience I have left.
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Do you know they found land mines in woman's souls.
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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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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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You keep worrying you’re taking up too much space. I wish you’d let yourself be the milky way.
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