A video reading of the poem, titled "Love Letter From the Afterlife" went viral after Gibson's passing was announced -- with thousands of people saying how much comfort it had brought them.

Andrea Gibson, a poet, activist and Colorado Laureate who was the subject of documentary film "Come See Me in the Good Light," has died at 49.

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

Iwasnever formally introduced to Andrea Gibson’s poetry. They just felt like kin from the beginning, like a queer cousin I always knew. Gibson — a queer poet, activist and performance artist who explored identity,