sometimes what you feel
about someone just isn’t enough.
it just isn’t.
because what they feel about themselves
will try to destroy what you feel about yourself
if you get close to them.
– butterflies rising
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you don’t love,
you just hold people close
to have someone to hurt,
or to hurt someone else with…
but none of it’s love.
– butterflies rising
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to be able to let go of you
it feels as if i’d also have to let go
of who i’ve been
…but i think that was your purpose.
– the catalyst
– butterflies rising
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that thing we do as a defense when we’re scared of losing something is often why we end up losing things
– butterflies rising
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someday i’m going
to love someone, and i’m going
to lay at their feet more love than they
could’ve ever imagined
…and you will never be anything
more to anyone than somebody that
someone, somewhere is
recovering from
– butterflies rising
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and after
everything,
you won’t even
grant me
the smallest mercy
of your absence
from my memory
– butterflies rising
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stop listening
to the voice that tells you
that love is supposed to be hard,
it keeps leading you to places where
love ends up being hard.
– butterflies rising
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it feels like
coming home after
being gone for too long
the way i gravitate to
the good in you…
how i just crave
that goodness in you.
– butterflies rising
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i hope that one day
the person who hurt you sees you from afar
dancing in the radiance of
your unburdened spirit and standing
strong in your fully mended bones…
and that for just a moment you feel their gaze,
so you can forever know, without question,
the powerlessness of their
perception over you
– butterflies rising
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i used to
think it was beautiful
the way i offered you all of my softness
and filled the air with tenderness
in the wake of your violence…
but now i know that i deserve to breathe
in tenderness too.
– butterflies rising
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