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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
Radical
Commit
Loving
Lifetime
Completely
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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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Every lover is a storm chaser. Every good heart has lost its roof.
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Do you know they found land mines in woman's souls.
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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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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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To think, a sweater, is made entirely of knots. My stomach could clothe a village.
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This is my body. It is no one's but mine.
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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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The trauma said, ‘Don’t write these poems. Nobody wants to hear you cry about the grief inside your bones.
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That night when you kissed me, I left a poem in your mouth, and you can hear some of the lines every time you breathe out.
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Everyone’s chest is a living room wall with awkwardly placed photographs hiding fist-shaped holes.
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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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I have never met a heavy heart that wasn’t a phone booth with a red cape inside Some people will never understand the kind of superpower it takes for some people to just walk outside Some days I know my smile looks like the gutter of a falling house But my hands are always holding tight to the ripchord of believing
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And we were Banksy on an overpass in New Orleans spray-painting porch lights on the hurricane. We were welcome mats for the un-forgiven. We never sold our windpipes to make a living. We were the letters sent to the wrong address, but opened anyway. We opened anyway.
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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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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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If you ever reach enlightenment. will you remember how to laugh?
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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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I don't have a single plan for my life more important than learning to love people well.
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In your arms I forget what the yarn knows of sweaters. I forget how to hold myself together. So if I unfold now like a love letter tell me you'll write back soon. Tell me you'll still come untethered.
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