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A review by larissalyann
You Better Be Lightning by Andrea Gibson
4.0
Picked this poem book up randomly and started reading without knowing who/ or what the poems would be about.
It's so brave to write one's heart on the pages of a book. Bleeding out for everyone to read. I cried in some of these. It's so beautiful to see someone's vulnerable moments on a page. To speak of love when this world has a lack of it. To see all the injustice and pain. And I do agree that world has been so unkind to the LGBTQ community.
I had a classmate commit suicide because he didn't want to be gay (his words) and he didn't even want to come out to his parents for fear of what they would think. It's just so heart breaking. Despite our beliefs I believe everyone should try and see things from the perspective of someone who's been ashamed/ shunned their whole lives. When we all should just love.
Do I agree with everything this person said? No.
(Religion things)
Is it still beautiful- yes.
It's not my place to disagree I'm merely a spectator reading some of the pages in this persons heart.
It's so brave to write one's heart on the pages of a book. Bleeding out for everyone to read. I cried in some of these. It's so beautiful to see someone's vulnerable moments on a page. To speak of love when this world has a lack of it. To see all the injustice and pain. And I do agree that world has been so unkind to the LGBTQ community.
I had a classmate commit suicide because he didn't want to be gay (his words) and he didn't even want to come out to his parents for fear of what they would think. It's just so heart breaking. Despite our beliefs I believe everyone should try and see things from the perspective of someone who's been ashamed/ shunned their whole lives. When we all should just love.
Do I agree with everything this person said? No.
(Religion things)
Is it still beautiful- yes.
It's not my place to disagree I'm merely a spectator reading some of the pages in this persons heart.