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You never wish on shooting stars. You wish on the ones that have the courage to shine where they are.

Andrea Gibson

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Andrea Gibson
Age: 49
Born: 1975
Born: August 13
Poet
Calais
Maine
Andrew Gibson
Inspirational
Shine
Never
Shooting
Shining
Poetry
Courage
Ones
Stars
Wish

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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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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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Know you belong here. You belong here and everything you feel is okay.
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I could never trust anyone who's well adjusted to a sick society.
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Your ignorance keeps dismembering every piece of patience I have left.
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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’ve written this poem before but always through a window, never through an open door.
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My mouth is a fire escape. The words coming out don’t care that they are naked. There is something burning in there.
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When your heart is broken, you plant seeds in the cracks and pray for rain.
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Autumn is the hardest season. The leaves are all falling, and they're falling like they're falling in love with the ground.
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But when I thought I hit bottom, it started hitting back.
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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 I wonder if Beethoven held his breath the first time his fingers touched the keys the same way a soldier holds his breath the first time his finger clicks the trigger. We all have different reasons for forgetting to breathe.
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None of us are pretty, but our ugly has an alibi.
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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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