April 30: from Every Time I Ever Said I Want to Die

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Apr 30, 2026, 8:57:27 PM (4 days ago) Apr 30

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from Every Time I Ever Said I Want to Die
Andrea Gibson

[...] a difficult life is not less
worth living than a gentle one. Joy is just easier
to carry than sorrow, and you could lift a city

from how long you’ve spent holding
what’s been nearly impossible to hold.
This world needs those who know

how to do that. Those who can find
a tunnel with no light at the end
of it and hold it up like a telescope

to show that the darkness contains
many truths that can bring the light
to its knees. Grief astronomer,

adjust the lens, look close. Tell us
what you see.

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Read the full poem here and see it performed. Spoken word poet Andrea Gibson (they/them) died this past July, aged 49, of ovarian cancer. The movie Come See Me in the Good Light is about their remarkable last year coming to terms with mortality.

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And that, my friends, brings us to the end of another poetry month. But fear not, I leave you with gifts:

+ a totally re-done tag directory, to let you explore all 660(!!) previously shared poems by topic, vibe, format, and more.
+ An actually up-to-date alphabetical list for quickly finding specific poets.
+ A magical link to a random poem from the past and the chronological archives.

And of course you can always beat on, boats against the current, and be borne back ceaselessly into the past:

Thanks for riding along. <3

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