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This is my heartbeat like yours, it is a hatchet It can build a house or tear one down.

Andrea Gibson

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

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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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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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When your heart is broken, you plant seeds in the cracks and pray for rain.
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Know you belong here. You belong here and everything you feel is okay.
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You keep worrying you’re taking up too much space. I wish you’d let yourself be the milky way.
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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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We have to create it is the only thing louder than destruction.
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