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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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Andrea Gibson
Age: 49
Born: 1975
Born: August 13
Poet
Calais
Maine
Andrew Gibson
Tears
Poetry
Inspirational
House
Like
Hatchet
Heartbeat
Tear
Build

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You can stand on the cliff of my heart and shout nothing but ‘ugly’ through me. I promise all I will echo back is ‘Beauty, beauty, you have always been beauty
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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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Forests may be gorgeous but there is nothing more alive than a tree that learns how to grow in a cemetery.
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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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Yesterday i carved your name into the surface of an ice cube then held it against my chest til it melted into my aching pores today i cried so hard the neighbors knocked on my door and asked if I wanted to borrow some sugar.
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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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Commit to loving yourself completely. It’s the most radical thing you will do in your lifetime.
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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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To think, a sweater, is made entirely of knots. My stomach could clothe a village.
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Fear is only a verb if you let it be. Don't you dare let go of my hand!
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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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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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You can have a cold war with yourself, even in the summertime
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I know a thousand things louder than a soldier's gun I know the heartbeat of his mother.
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Touch me 'til my ribs become piano keys.
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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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When your heart is broken, you plant seeds in the cracks and pray for rain.
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You are not weak just because your heart feels so empty.
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I am wrong more often than i am writing and even then i am often wrong
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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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