people who love
passionately are meant to
be loved passionately
– butterflies rising
Read More →self-love
if they love you,
they will love the way
you fall in love with yourself,
and life, and them,
and everything beautiful
– butterflies rising
Read More →this becoming
will ask for your breath, patience
and for your fight, perseverance
transformation is made of both
surrender and strength
– butterflies rising
Read More →let me
wander with
the ones who are
tangled in stars
and tethered
to promise
– dreamers
– butterflies rising
Read More →it makes it harder to love people
when you won’t let yourself
have faith in them
– butterflies rising
Read More →i’m learning
to love the way
my name settles
in silence
before i can love
how it falls
from another’s
mouth
– this love story first.
– butterflies rising
Read More →she’s got
her daddy’s eyes
and her mama’s pretty lips,
and she’ll stay on your mind
with a sugar-sweet kiss,
that southern girl with her wild soul
will leave an imprint on your heart
and make under those southern sunsets
feel like somewhere you belong
– butterflies rising
Read More →she’s got
her daddy’s blue eyes
and her mama’s pretty lips,
and she’ll stay on your mind
with a sugar-sweet kiss,
that southern girl with her wild soul
will leave an imprint on your heart
and make somewhere in tennessee
feel something like home
– butterflies rising
Read More →i will not
take care of my fears today.
i will not feed them or tend to them
or give them any space.
and if i do not take care of my fears today…
what i feel tomorrow might be something
a little bit like faith.
– butterflies rising
Read More →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 →let the
wonder and beauty
of your existence
fall out of you
everywhere, unafraid
no matter who may take it in
or hold it with care
let it all be
unshaken by the cold
– butterflies rising
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