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Commit to loving yourself completely. It’s the most radical thing you will do in your lifetime.

Andrea Gibson

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Andrea Gibson
Age: 49
Born: 1975
Born: August 13
Poet
Calais
Maine
Andrew Gibson
Commit
Loving
Lifetime
Completely
Thing
Radical

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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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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 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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We all have bullets beneath our skin we pray our lovers won't flinch at when they find.
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I’ve written this poem before but always through a window, never through an open door.
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When your heart is broken, you plant seeds in the cracks and pray for rain.
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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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You keep worrying you’re taking up too much space. I wish you’d let yourself be the milky way.
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