and after
everything,
you won’t even
grant me
the smallest mercy
of your absence
from my memory
– butterflies rising
Read More →no mercy…
confirmation bias…
stop listening
to the voice that tells you
that love is supposed to be hard,
it keeps leading you to places where
love ends up being hard.
– butterflies rising
Read More →like coming home…
it feels like
coming home after
being gone for too long
the way i gravitate to
the good in you…
how i just crave
that goodness in you.
– butterflies rising
Read More →i hope that one day the person who hurt you sees you from afar…
i hope that one day
the person who hurt you sees you from afar
dancing in the radiance of
your unburdened spirit and standing
strong in your fully mended bones…
and that for just a moment you feel their gaze,
so you can forever know, without question,
the powerlessness of their
perception over you
– butterflies rising
Read More →to be steady in the soul and free in the spirit…
to be steady in the soul and free in the spirit
to be steady in the soul and free in the spirit – book memes
breathe in tenderness…
i used to
think it was beautiful
the way i offered you all of my softness
and filled the air with tenderness
in the wake of your violence…
but now i know that i deserve to breathe
in tenderness too.
– butterflies rising
Read More →but if it’s love… when it asks you to come along…
but if it’s love…
when it asks you to come along,
it will not ask you to leave
yourself behind
– butterflies rising
Read More →now that i know you exist, how do i not love you (full poem)…
now that i know you exist…
how do i not love you.
how do i not follow this gravity towards you.
now that i feel this, how could i ever not. feel. this.
i don’t know how i could ever be here in this life
and not. love you. i just have no choice.
but then… you made a choice.
and now i have no choice.
and i don’t know how…
how will i be here in this world
with you somewhere else in this world.
how. will i learn to pull myself out of this gravity
and not feel this anymore now that i have felt. this.
how…
now that i know you exist…
how do i not love you.
– butterflies rising
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