if this life doesn’t look like your soul feels, keep going…

if this life doesn’t
look like your soul feels,
keep going

– butterflies rising

she needs to become who she needs to be for herself before she can ever be anything for you.

– butterflies rising

you said,
tell me where you’ve been, love

and i thought of all the lost roads,
and dark corners,
and heavy work, and heartbreak,
and of all the healing

and i just said…
on my way here

– butterflies rising

feel
everything
that is
beautiful and possible
in your soul,
and let yourself
become it

– butterflies rising

if anyone or anything
needs my spirit to be small,
i’m finally learning to walk away…

because there is just nothing i
could lose that i would ever miss as
much as i have missed the feel of my own
soul when i wasn’t listening to it.

– butterflies rising

if anyone or anything
needs my spirit to be small…

i’m finally learning
to walk away

– butterflies rising

she’s not here just to be
a supporting character in your story…

she has her own entire story
to live too.

– butterflies rising

if i am to
feel sure of anything,
i must learn to feel
sure of me

– butterflies rising

beautiful wildflower, grow untamed

– butterflies rising

beautiful
wildflower…
be free and reach
for the sun,
live in all your colors
and grow so
untamed

– butterflies rising

sweet girl,
it wasn’t that you weren’t enough,
it’s your energy… it asks
others to rise up, and not everyone
is willing to go where they
would grow

– butterflies rising

self-love