we cannot
carry another
on their own way…
in soul searching,
we must all find
our own legs beneath us,
our own voice inside of us,
and our own
light to guide us.
– butterflies rising
Read More →we cannot carry another…
Tag: Self Awareness
poetry is my scripture…
poetry is my scripture,
music is my gospel,
empathy and kindness are my witness,
creativity and love are my worship
– butterflies rising
Read More →i think it’s a good thing, how we can struggle in such desperation…
A Good Thing…
i think it’s a good thing,
how we can struggle in such desperation
for clarity and still never find a way to make
any sense of how they treated us…
i think it means we’re just not capable of
that same cruelty within ourselves.
and i think that’s a really good thing.
– butterflies rising
Read More →relentlessly unsettled…
codependency doesn’t keep you warm…
codependency
doesn’t keep you warm…
it keeps you from breathing
fresh air
– butterflies rising
Read More →the rebound relationship…
One of the saddest connections is
the rebound relationship.
You’re using one person to try to
unlove another.
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
Read More →go with them…
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
Read More →the whole of one another…
we are
not halves of
each other,
we come here to
love the whole of
one another
– butterflies rising
Read More →your awakening…
i hope
you never
let the ones
who are
sleepwalking
hold you back
in your
own awakening
– 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 →the best of you…
it isn’t always about judgment
when someone else can’t accept how you are,
sometimes it’s about their self-love
sometimes how you are choosing to be
is harmful to others, and it’s nobody else’s
responsibility to just accept that,
it’s your responsibility to grow, and
to treat people better
love isn’t about demanding that
someone else takes the worst of you,
it’s about wanting to give someone
the best of you
– butterflies rising
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