the way i used to bite down into your chest when it got to be a little too much… that’s how i had to chew you out of my heart when the hurt became too much.
– butterflies rising
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Tag: Self Esteem
save yourself for people who always treat you in such a way…
save
yourself
for people who
always treat you
in such a way
that lets you love
yourself
– butterflies rising
Read More →the way we feel about ourselves can be so affected by…
the way we feel about ourselves can be so affected by the ones who we let into our close proximity… so save yourself for people who always treat you in such a way that lets you love yourself
– butterflies rising
Read More →a weak man’s crutch…
the alchemy in poetry…
and when
i write this out,
this isn’t to remember you…
it’s to take it away
from you,
i’ll take all these feelings i felt
and i’ll make art,
i’ll make something beautiful,
i’ll make something new
– the alchemy in poetry
– butterflies rising
Read More →the wild, the flowers, and the fire…
that wild in your heart,
those flowers in your chest,
and the fire in your blood
– butterflies rising
Read More →settling will always leave the heart 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 →chosen by me…
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
Read More →i think one of the saddest connections is the rebound relationship…
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
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