it makes it harder to love people
when you won’t let yourself
have faith in them
– butterflies rising
Read More →trust issues…
let yourself fall into this wild love…
why else are we here if not to live with unreasonable passion for things…
why else
are we here if not
to live with unreasonable
passion for things
– butterflies rising
Read More →dear heart…
dear heart,
why do you run from the
things that give you a pulse
…don’t fear what makes you feel
– butterflies rising
Read More →i don’t need fancy ways and shiny things…
i don’t need
fancy ways
and shiny things,
give me
slow hands,
honest eyes,
and full attention
with ease
…give me priceless things.
– butterflies rising
Read More →the way honesty feels…
reach into
my heart through
the bones of my chest
and uncover it all…
feel anything that’s there
and breathe easy.
– the way honesty feels
– butterflies rising
Read More →made of soul…
you make everything beautiful,
everything about you is
made of soul
– butterflies rising
Read More →keep them high: your standards for love are going to make some people uncomfortable…
your standards for love
are going to make some people
uncomfortable, and they will try to make
you feel like your standards are too high,
but it’s only because those standards threaten
their comfort zones.
what you believe in either challenges
how they treat people,
or how they’ve accepted being treated.
keep them high.
– butterflies rising
– butterflies rising
Read More →fire and air: i want a love that as deep as it feels it breathes just as free…
learn to let yourself feel the soft things when they come to you…
abandon…
maybe i like
that you came here
to do more
than pass time, or hold your space
over there,
and i could trade my foothold
for my senses shaken,
and forgo my ability
to stay in my body,
if you want to show me
how abandon
can feel like magic
– butterflies rising
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