i’m still learning
to trust that i am growing wings
that were measured just for me,
and that they are right-sized
just for my journey
– butterflies rising
Read More →learning to trust that i am growing wings that were measured just for me…
trying to believe that i am growing wings that were measured just for me…
trying to believe
that i am growing wings
that were measured just for me,
that are right-sized just. for. this.
and when the voice inside
has something to say…
that it’s something
i can trust.
– butterflies rising
Read More →i said, i want to learn to trust you, but i don’t know how…
i said,
“i want to learn to trust you,
but i don’t know how.”
and you said,
“then don’t. learn to trust you.
then see what your heart has to say about me,
and follow that.”
– butterflies rising
Read More →and i closed my eyes in the middle of all the wild noise… because there are dreams over there…
and i closed my eyes
in the middle of all the wild noise
and just stayed still… and i felt myself
being pulled that way.
and so i asked, “why that way?”
and i heard, “because there are dreams over there.”
and that feels like as good a reason as any
to ever do anything…
and so i’m going to go that way.
– butterflies rising
Read More →it’s the most terrifying but most beautiful thing when you realize your path is you-shaped…
it’s the most terrifying but most beautiful thing when you realize your path is you-shaped
– butterflies rising
Read More →and you’re in this place where there are no footprints in front of you…
and you’re in this place where there are no footprints in front of you, and there isn’t anyone else here to ask, and they wouldn’t have your answers even if they were… everything here only feels like you. but it’s how you know that it’s your path.
– butterflies rising
Read More →we lose ourselves in the wild blush…
we lose ourselves in the wild blush,
and the moment grips at us to stay. here.
where time is no matter, and our heartbeats
are everything… so stay. here.
and just feel this.
– butterflies rising
Read More →i think we find our soulmates in the places we go to find our souls…
i think we find our soulmates in the places we go to find our souls
– butterflies rising
Read More →as many things as you want to be…
no matter anyone else’s barriers
and limitations and boxes and stories…
i hope you let yourself dream.
and search. and discover. and grow.
and be many-layered, and curious, and unlimited…
and passionate and wild… and soft and vulnerable…
and have depth or lightness…
and be found or lost…
and be as many other things as you want to be.
and i hope you find a way to be unafraid and
unapologetic and undeterred as you do…
because other people’s barriers
and limitations and boxes and stories
are just that… theirs.
– butterflies rising
Read More →just to be young…
i just don’t
know what to say
other than i am sorry
that we’ve asked you
to be burdened with living
something like warriors
to only give you afterwishes
and more of these i’m sorries
and i hope that someday soon
you get to feel safe
and that the only thing we
ask of you is just to be young.
– butterflies rising
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