You Better Be Lightning (Button Poetry)

by Andrea Gibson

There is no escaping the magic now. Beauty caught me and never let me go.

Bitterness is the easiest way to leave this world having had only a near-life experience.

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

What if we don’t have to be healed to be whole? There are holes in every inch of the fabric that makes me who I am,

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

and what’s true is I can’t always tell the difference between my gifts and my tragedies.

A promised land is not a promised land if I can’t keep learning.