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
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Tag: Poetry
but if it’s love, when it asks you to come along…
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
Read More →please quiet the noise in my head so i can hear the voice in my heart…
please quiet the noise in my head so i can hear the voice in my heart
– butterflies rising
Read More →clarity… may this stillness stay and quiet the noise in my head so i can hear the voice in my heart…
clarity…
may this stillness stay
and quiet the noise in my head
so i can hear the voice in my heart
– butterflies rising
Read More →your heart…
your heart
is being prepared
for the heart
that is being prepared
for your heart
patience.
– butterflies rising
Read More →you’re not getting this all wrong; being human is really hard…
you’re not getting this all wrong;
being human is really hard, and things hurt
so much because you’re made of stuff that’s so
much better than this place. so it’s ok to barely
even know how to be human sometimes…
just take it from one breath to the next.
you’re just a soft spirit
in a hard world.
– butterflies rising
Read More →show me your wildfires…
your wildfires…
let me see
your chest bleed
and your heart ache
with all that you are
and for everything you love…
show me all your wildfires,
i want to know your wildfires
– butterflies rising
Read More →it is always…
what is
beautiful in me
and what is tender
in me
it is always.
no matter how
hard you tried to make
me feel hard to love
there are
all these beautiful
and tender things in me…
always.
– butterflies rising
Read More →new love needs fresh air…
you want to love again… but first,
you have to put to rest the unrest that you
felt with the hands you held before.
you gave that half-love your full attention for
so long, and now your heart needs to take
some space to breathe… new love needs fresh air.
– butterflies rising
Read More →the way you speak, the things you know: the remix…
the way you say things to me… it makes me
want to know anything you have to say about
everything, really. your voice, your thoughts…
all the things you know.
– butterflies rising
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