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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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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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I’ve written this poem before but always through a window, never through an open door.
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Every lover is a storm chaser. Every good heart has lost its roof.
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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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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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You never wish on shooting stars. You wish on the ones that have the courage to shine where they are.
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But when I thought I hit bottom, it started hitting back.
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To think, a sweater, is made entirely of knots. My stomach could clothe a village.
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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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Love isn't always magic. Sometimes it's just melting.
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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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My heart is a parachute that has never opened in time.
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I'm never gonna wait that extra twenty minutes to text you back and I'm never gonna play hard to get when I know your life has been hard enough already.
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We're boxed in and labeled before we're ever able to speak who we believe we are or who we dream we'll become.
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What Gods do you believe in? I'll build you a temple of mirrors so you can see them.
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We have to create it is the only thing louder than destruction.
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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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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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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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I am wrong more often than i am writing and even then i am often wrong
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