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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.

Andrea Gibson

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Andrea Gibson
Age: 49
Born: 1975
Born: August 13
Poet
Calais
Maine
Andrew Gibson
Like
Burned
Sunshine
Sometimes
Love

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If love did not exist, I would be so goddamn sane.
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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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But when I thought I hit bottom, it started hitting back. There is no bruise like the bruise loneliness kicks into your spine.
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I don't believe we're hateful. I think mostly we're just asleep, but the math adds up the same.
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Your ignorance keeps dismembering every piece of patience I have left.
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Commit to loving yourself completely. It’s the most radical thing you will do in your lifetime.
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she's wondering how many women are walking around this world feeling the tingling of their amputated wings remembering what it was to fly to sing
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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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We are all instruments pulling the bows across our own lungs. Windmills, still startling in every storm. Have you ever seen a newborn blinking at the light? I wanna do that every day. I wanna know what the kite called itself when it got away, when it escaped into the night.
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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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Hey, are you a boy or a — never mind, can I have a push on the swing?” And some day, y’all, when we grow up, it’s all gonna be that simple.
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Last night I saw your ghost pedalling a bicycle with a basket towards a moon as full as my heavy head and I wanted nothing more than to be sitting in that basket like ET with my glowing heart glowing right through my chest and my glowing finger pointing in the direction of our home.
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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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Do you think anger is a sincere emotion or the timid motion of a fragile heart trying to beat away its pain?
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I’ve written this poem before but always through a window, never through an open door.
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For Halloween I'm gonna be emotionally stable. No one's gonna know it's me.
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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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