You Better Be Lightning (Button Poetry)

by Andrea Gibson

Tore the caution tape off my life and let everything touch it:

I know what it is to scratch a plan but not the whole trip and still arrive to your destination

Too much lives in a moment to not feed it to the fire in the heart,

most people try hard to do good and find out too late they should have tried softer.

beauty is in the eye of anyone who sees what’s missing but can’t stop pointing to what’s still there.

Burning to be better is my favorite quality on anyone, and you are on fire

is not the weak who try to clock out early. It’s people who are desperate to go home.

If we never deny the inevitable end of the story, we will write it more beautiful while we’re alive.

I am resigning from the position of My Own Worst Enemy.

I had no idea that holding myself back would be contagious.

there are no benefits when the co-pay is your life.

How did you come to believe that hating yourself would protect you from other people’s hate?

Is my attention on loving, or is my attention on who isn’t loving me?