You Better Be Lightning (Button Poetry)

by Andrea Gibson

You’ve walked on water so many times you know grace is super, super slippery. There’s literally nothing anyone is more likely to fall from. Some sound advice I give myself, like, twice an hour: Wear knee pads on the way to your ego, Andrea. Being right is boring. It comforts only the tiniest parts of us, and when it comes to hearts, I want to always be a size queen ’cause that’s how I found you— lifting the spirits of everyone around like a hot air balloon just from the way you burned to be a better person today than you were the day before. Burning to be better is my favorite quality on anyone, and you are on fire like a gay men’s choir rocking the halftime show of a football game. I’ve been dancing in the end zone since you taught me to start breaking every promise I have made to my pain, taught me my wounds will never be bigger than I am.