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Everything but I LOVE YOU is small talk.

Andrea Gibson

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Andrea Gibson
Age: 49
Born: 1975
Born: August 13
Poet
Calais
Maine
Andrew Gibson
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Love
Poetry
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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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We all have bullets beneath our skin we pray our lovers won't flinch at when they find.
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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 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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This is my heartbeat like yours, it is a hatchet It can build a house or tear one down.
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Your ignorance keeps dismembering every piece of patience I have left.
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I am wrong more often than i am writing and even then i am often wrong
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I wanna know what you see when you look in the mirror on a day you’re feeling good. I wanna know what you see when you look in the mirror on a day you’re feeling bad. I wanna know the first person who taught you your beauty could ever be reflected on a lousy piece of glass.
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Cause I might be naked and lonely Shaking branches for bones But I'm still time zones away From who I was the day before we met You were the first mile Where my heart broke a sweat And I wish you were here I wish you'd never left But mostly I wish you well I wish you my very very best.
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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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If you’re handing out flashlights in the dark, start handing out stars.
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If you ever reach enlightenment. will you remember how to laugh?
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Our insanity is not that we see people who aren’t there. It’s that we ignore the ones who are.
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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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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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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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The holy have done more damage to this world than the devil ever could.
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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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What Gods do you believe in? I'll build you a temple of mirrors so you can see them.
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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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