never be ashamed of how deeply and passionately…

never be ashamed
of how deeply and passionately
you loved someone who destroyed you,
because destroying things is just who they are…

but loving things deeply and passionately
is who you are

– butterflies rising

illusions…

i spent all that time
haunted by the ghost of
someone you never really were

– butterflies rising

forever trying
to reconcile a hopelessly
romantic heart and a fiercely
independent soul

– butterflies rising

it’s just never been in me
to avoid loneliness with another
and try to call it love.

– butterflies rising

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

i have worried my heart
far too much about what i am worth
to those who were not worthy
of my heart

– butterflies rising

he wanted me to feel
jealousy towards her, but i didn’t,
i just felt compassion for her…

i too had once known the devastating
lack of self-love required to be with him

– butterflies rising

let yourself
find peace with the
apology that’s never coming…
even if it came,
it wouldn’t be enough,
and it doesn’t hold your healing

– butterflies rising

we honor the
people around us by taking
responsibility for our own energy,

we honor ourselves
by choosing to have people around us
who are willing to do the same.

– butterflies rising

some people are
convinced they’ve been
hurt by you simply because you’ve
stopped letting them hurt you

– butterflies rising

she’s learning to stop
bleeding herself out for others.

to stop. bleeding love. for those who
only drain her.

to let it all flow back to her…
to let all that love fill her own heart.

– butterflies rising

Tag: Relationships