relentlessly unsettled…

settling will always
leave the heart
relentlessly unsettled

– butterflies rising

codependency
doesn’t keep you warm…
it keeps you from breathing
fresh air

– butterflies rising

i’m learning to be more careful with
my care full heart, and to care less for
the ones who are careless with it

– butterflies rising

i think one of the saddest
connections is the rebound relationship…
you’re using one person to try
to unlove another.

so there’s nothing pure or honest
in what that relationship is, or ever will be,
as you’ve carried into it an unhealed bond
to what was.

take time to cleanse, to heal, to renew,
to grow, to become.

– butterflies rising

take time
to cleanse,
to heal,
to renew,
to grow,
to become.

– butterflies rising

and if you are in darkness,
and if they come to you,
and if they reach a hand down
to pull you out,
be sure that if you take their hand
you do not drag them into the dark,
but go with them…

go with them into the light

– butterflies rising

the way a boy with tattoos can linger…

the way i’d
trace my fingers
so slow
down your forearm
over every inch of
your tattoos,
just taking in your skin,
letting it tell me all
your stories,
even the ones you
couldn’t say…
i’m terrified i’ll always
miss that.

– butterflies rising