water and warmth…

like water,
and warmth,
this love
will hold you,
but it won’t
hold you in place

– butterflies rising

this is
aching… and
this is hope.
staring out at the
nashville skyline,
and wondering
where you are,
and if your skyline is just
as beautiful,
and does it hold all these
promises of us too

– butterflies rising

and you say we’ll find a way…
promise me we’ll find our way

– butterflies rising

it’s always and ever
only you.

– butterflies rising

the universe gave me
a relentlessly loyal heart,
i could love through lifetimes

– butterflies rising

how
your eyes
fall on me
so undistracted

– butterflies rising

this way you
so gently, yet confidently
ask me to grow,
you are flowers and fire
so softly, yet knowingly
awakening me
to all of these things
i want to become

– spring

– butterflies rising