As if it were a jump shot from their basketball-obsessed childhood, “soaring towards the rim like a kite,” Andrea Gibson could send a spoken word poem spinning through space and time knowing it would reach its perfect home — swishing to a close in the last lines, nothing but net.

I am more with you than I ever could have imagined,” Gibson says in the poem, written while facing a terminal illness.

"Though Andrea desperately wished to have lived a longer life, they could not have possibly lived a fuller one," Gibson's family said.

Ariana DeBose shares heartfelt words about the passing of Andrea Gibson, who explored themes of grief, connection, and gender identity, after a battle with ovarian cancer.