learn to let
yourself feel the soft things
when they come to you
– butterflies rising
Read More →Tag: Self Growth
be curiosity…
when we let go of
the need to control it all
i think the universe listens…
instead of our old patterns we’ll get
spark-starters and soul awakeners,
and instead of the hard lessons we’ll be given
inspirers and spirit challengers
…and maybe it’s as simple as to just be curiosity.
– butterflies rising
Read More →growing wings…
i didn’t know how to measure my worth,
and it led me to someone who measured his worth
in attention from her, and also her, and her…
and any other her to hurt me
he thought there was power in possession and pain,
and that a man’s kingdom should be built
on the stepping of her back and the forfeit of her crown
so i forfeited. and i faded. but i’m learning things…
like how real lovers don’t come in numbers. they aren’t prisoners.
they’re not meant to be suffocated, or left for granted…
and how i’m full enough of wonder to hold someone’s attention,
that my full voice matters,
my full-bodied existence is beautiful,
and that a man on the strong side of oppression isn’t
the same thing as a man who is strong.
– butterflies rising
Read More →if i do but one thing today, may i be human sunshine for someone…
the sun, the moon, and my heart…
wanting everything
and ready for nothing,
intense energy
and inconsistent energy
terrify me all the same
when both passion and fear
have you fully consumed…
this is what it is to have a heart
born in the soft light of the virgo sun
and a sagittarian spirit that dances
under a restless gemini moon
– the sun, the moon, and my heart
– butterflies rising
Read More →lightwork: what you have… it isn’t here yet…
what you have…
it isn’t here yet.
what you hold, what you are,
it’s why you’re here.
maybe you create, or shift and change,
or just love in a way this world doesn’t know yet.
whatever that light is… it’s your work here.
those things you feel in you
but don’t yet see,
you’re meant to breathe them
into being.
– lightwork
– butterflies rising
Read More →vulnerability…
i need the grace of it,
this honesty within myself,
so it has to be a home…
even if you might not be careful here.
– vulnerability
– butterflies rising
Read More →benevolence and butterflies…
just because
benevolence
and butterflies
linger on your tongue,
it does not mean
your voice cannot be
a revolution
– butterflies rising
Read More →soft-spoken girls…
just because
benevolence
and butterflies
linger on your tongue,
it does not mean
your voice cannot be
a revolution
– soft-spoken girls
– butterflies rising
Read More →breathe through and release…
on forced forgiveness…
not everything finds peace through
forgiveness. it just doesn’t. and trying to force
something you don’t authentically feel can
not only keep you from healing, but it can also
be a reinjury to your spirit.
sometimes you just feel it in you,
how forgiveness is asking too much of you,
and it’s not because you’re holding on, it’s because
sometimes the burden of that shift,
that closure, that resolution, it isn’t your work.
it’s the other person’s energy to move, and you cannot
move energy for others.
with those things, let it be ok that all they ask of you
is to breathe through and release.
– butterflies rising
Read More →skin…
i have to learn
to feel good
in my own
before it
can feel good
to be next
to someone else’s
– skin
– butterflies rising
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