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

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I have always been comfortable weathering the storm. I’d like to get more comfortable weathering the sunny day.
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We all have bullets beneath our skin we pray our lovers won't flinch at when they find.
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But when I thought I hit bottom, it started hitting back.
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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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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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We were all born on days when too many people died in terrible ways, but you still have to call it a birthday.
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Your ignorance keeps dismembering every piece of patience I have left.
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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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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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If you’re handing out flashlights in the dark, start handing out stars.
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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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When your heart is broken, you plant seeds in the cracks and pray for rain.
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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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I would kiss you in the middle of the ocean during a lightning storm cuz I'd rather be left for dead than wondering what thunder sounds like.
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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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Fear is only a verb if you let it be. Don't you dare let go of my hand!
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Every lover is a storm chaser. Every good heart has lost its roof.
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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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Safety isn't always safe. You can find one on every gun.
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None of us are pretty, but our ugly has an alibi.
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