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What Gods do you believe in? I'll build you a temple of mirrors so you can see them.

Andrea Gibson

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Andrea Gibson
Age: 49
Born: 1975
Born: August 13
Poet
Calais
Maine
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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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Remember, you didn’t come here to write your heart out. You came to write it in.
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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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You have a heart of gold and I am kneeling in your bloodstream panning for the only thing that has ever felt like home.
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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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We were all born on days when too many people died in terrible ways, but you still have to call it a birthday.
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Sometimes the break in your heart is like the hole in the flute. Sometimes it’s the place where the music comes through.
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To think, a sweater, is made entirely of knots. My stomach could clothe a village.
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Everything but I LOVE YOU is small talk.
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Sometimes the most healing thing to do is remind ourselves over and over and over, other people feel this too.
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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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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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When your heart is broken, you plant seeds in the cracks and pray for rain.
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My heart is still a leather jacket I am waiting to give to someone sweet.
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For Halloween I'm gonna be emotionally stable. No one's gonna know it's me.
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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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You are not weak just because your heart feels so empty.
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If you ever reach enlightenment. will you remember how to laugh?
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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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