Never Known

Hearing you snore
Is safety
I've never known

#poems #poetry #love

Home

How many times
Do I have to rebuild myself

To not have
Fist sized holes in the wall

Somewhere between

Well insulated
And outright fat

Where I can hide
The 8 year old

Begging to be loved
Through the cracks in the floorboard

Looking into the kitchen
For..."

#poems #poetry #abuse

I’ll Be Fine

I do not like this thought at all
I do not like it big or small

I do not like it in my brain
I do not like it on refrain

I do not like it when I wake
Or every step I try to take

I do not like this grinding thought
I do not like its tragic plot..."

The Voice in my Head that Reads Poems

You’re the voice in my head that reads poems
I've never met you
A stranger on all counts

But your voice
Was the first one
I heard tell my story

I thought I knew what poems were
Until I cried myself to..."

@andreagibson.bsky.social

#poem #poetry

Scars
I used to be so ashamed
Of the shiny bumps
Hidden around my body
Letters like moonlight
Sunk into my skin
Soft
Cold
My love for them has
Waxed and Waned
With the tides of my love
For myself.
Now I have scars
That beam from my chest
To light the harvest
And..."

#topsurgery #ftm #poems

Falling
I‘d fallen in love
So often
I thought I knew what it meant
To love myself
But
Until the day I started
Counting
Chest hairs
And
Stopping to stare
At myself
In the reflection of the mirror in the hallway
I didn’t really know what it meant
To love
Me

#transmasc #lgbtq+ #poem

Soft
Winter has always been so soft to me
Each flake that falls
Lands
Silently adding all of its weight
To the blanket
Laid gently on the ground

Even when the cold is sharp
It’s silence
Rolls over
Frosty cheeks
Rounding its edges in
Comfort

We watch the snow..."

#winter #poems #writing

Breath
It’s not that I can’t breathe.
It’s that breathing feels like cotton balls
Stuffed down my throat
Filling my lungs
With itching uncertainty
My chest stretches out
Becoming the worn pillow
My anxiety can rest it’s head on

Each exhale
Clamors its way out of..."

#poems #anxiety #poet

Who
"If I wrote you a letter
And told you about my day
I wonder which you'd answer

I wonder if it would be the man
Who laughed so hard he made
The whole room
Light up

Would it be the
Ball tag champion
Of the graveyard
Of 2004

Would it be..."

#poems #poetry #abuse

November

"It all ebbs and flows
But the ebb is a drought
And the flow is a trickle
And my love our flowers need more
Than just sunshine
To grow
I'd love to make you a bouquet
But I picked the flowers
And didn't see you in time
Before they withered"

@o-rose

#poems #love #writing

I am not
"How can you love me
When I am not

When I don't want to
Be

Looking to something
To finally feel like
Nothing

Finally feel
Like I took a step
Off

The deep end

I don't want to hurt anyone
To not hurt anymore

How can I love
When I am not"
.
#poems #poetry #love

Grief

"Grief
Is a terrible thing

So stricken with love
In the moment
Something is gone

So ached with memories
Plagued with time
Burdened with continuing

Grief is the keeper
Of lies

So quick to give us
Tear stained
Polaroid pictures

That will never do justice
To..."
#poems #love #grief

Whiskey
"I felt more
Myself

When I couldn't
See clearly
Enough to drive home

Than I ever
Felt

Holding my own hand"

#poetry #poems