take time to cleanse, to heal, to renew, to grow, to become…

take time
to cleanse,
to heal,
to renew,
to grow,
to become.

– butterflies rising

poetry is my scripture,
music is my gospel,
empathy and kindness are my witness,
creativity and love are my worship

– butterflies rising

A Good Thing…

i think it’s a good thing,
how we can struggle in such desperation
for clarity and still never find a way to make
any sense of how they treated us…

i think it means we’re just not capable of
that same cruelty within ourselves.

and i think that’s a really good thing.

– butterflies rising

The Turning Point…

let go your fear
as it falls
beautiful, be still
this untangling of it all
let your bones fill with might
let your lungs fill with free

don’t look back.

– butterflies rising

settling will always
leave the heart
relentlessly unsettled

– butterflies rising

codependency
doesn’t keep you warm…
it keeps you from breathing
fresh air

– butterflies rising

i’m learning to be more careful with
my care full heart, and to care less for
the ones who are careless with it

– butterflies rising

all i’ve ever wanted…
is to know that i matter. by myself.
for myself. and belonging to myself.
chosen by no one, but me.

– butterflies rising

love won’t
ask you to be less of yourself,
it will invite you to
become more and more of you,
to step into all of you

– butterflies rising

but if it’s love,
when it asks you to come along,
it will not ask you to leave yourself behind…

love won’t ask you to be less. of. yourself.
it will invite you to become more and more of you,
to step into all of you.

– butterflies rising

please quiet the noise in my head so i can hear the voice in my heart

– butterflies rising

self-love