You Better Be Lightning (Button Poetry)

by Andrea Gibson

Regret is a time machine to the past. Worry is a time machine to the future. Gratitude is a time machine to the present.

All time is quality time.

Do you know whales will follow their injured friends to shore, often taking their own lives so as not to let a loved one be alone when he dies?

You can die from a broken heart, but the opposite is also true.

But you’re done making vacations out of people. You want a permanent home.

Remember when her laughter was a disco ball and everything around her sparkled— especially you.