and after
everything,
you won’t even
grant me
the smallest mercy
of your absence
from my memory
– butterflies rising
Read More →no mercy…
Tag: Letting Go
stripped…
she will find him…
there is a man
who will give her all the
love you withheld from her…
and she will find him
– butterflies rising
Read More →illusions…
illusions…
i spent all that time
haunted by the ghost of
someone you never really were
– butterflies rising
Read More →persecution complex…
some people are
convinced they’ve been
hurt by you simply because you’ve
stopped letting them hurt you
– butterflies rising
Read More →indifference…
it was just
this quiet moment of
indifference to your existence…
and that’s when i knew
that i had healed.
– butterflies rising
Read More →it won’t hurt anymore…
i promise,
once you learn to love
who you are,
it won’t hurt anymore…
all of this pain from the one
who didn’t love you.
you will love you, so it just
won’t matter anymore.
– butterflies rising
Read More →when the hurt became too much…
the way i used to bite down into your chest when it got to be a little too much… that’s how i had to chew you out of my heart when the hurt became too much.
– butterflies rising
Read More →drive…
Drive…
you used to
drive me everywhere,
and nowhere, for hours,
just so we could talk
about everything, and nothing,
for what felt like forever…
but then you drove this nowhere,
and you left nothing
– butterflies rising
Read More →the alchemy in poetry…
and when
i write this out,
this isn’t to remember you…
it’s to take it away
from you,
i’ll take all these feelings i felt
and i’ll make art,
i’ll make something beautiful,
i’ll make something new
– the alchemy in poetry
– butterflies rising
Read More →the turning point…
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
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