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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
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A doctor once told me I feel too much. I said, so does god. that’s why you can see the grand canyon from the moon.
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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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Right now there’s a man on the street outside my door with outstretched hands full of heartbeats no one can hear. He has cheeks like torn sheet music every tear-broken crescendo falling on deaf ears. At his side there’s a boy with eyes like an anthem no one stands up for.
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I’ve written this poem before but always through a window, never through an open door.
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Know you belong here. You belong here and everything you feel is okay.
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I am living today as someone I had not yet become yesterday and tonight I will borrow only pieces of who I am today to carry with me to tomorrow.
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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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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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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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Touch me ‘til my ribs become piano keys, ‘til there is sheet music scrolled across the inside of my lungs.
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If love did not exist, I would be so goddamn sane.
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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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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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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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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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You keep worrying you’re taking up too much space. I wish you’d let yourself be the milky way.
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What Gods do you believe in? I'll build you a temple of mirrors so you can see them.
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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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Everyone’s chest is a living room wall with awkwardly placed photographs hiding fist-shaped holes.
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I am wrong more often than i am writing and even then i am often wrong
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