he gave me every
reason not to believe in love…
yet here i am after everything,
so beautifully certain it exists
– butterflies rising
Read More →so beautifully certain…
Tag: Self Growth
in spite of everything…
my power has been,
in spite of everything, always
finding it in me somewhere
to say to myself… you are worthy.
– butterflies rising
Read More →young boy, you will grow…
young boy
you will grow
they will tell you to be strong
they will teach you to be tough
i hope someone tells you to feel
i hope they teach you to be love
young man
grown man
let yourself be love
– butterflies rising
Read More →stripped…
she will find him…
there is a man
who will give her all the
love you withheld from her…
and she will find him
– butterflies rising
Read More →may the sunrise bring you peace and fill your soul with possibility…
may the
sunrise bring you peace
and fill your soul with
possibility
– butterflies rising
Read More →illusions…
illusions…
i spent all that time
haunted by the ghost of
someone you never really were
– butterflies rising
Read More →acquiescence…
sometimes the healing
isn’t as complicated as it feels,
it just asks for space, and surrender, and release…
allowing time to turn the pages
and the memories to fade,
just letting all those messes untangle
and what’s gone to fall away
– butterflies rising
Read More →hopelessly romantic heart and a fiercely independent soul…
forever trying
to reconcile a hopelessly
romantic heart and a fiercely
independent soul
– butterflies rising
Read More →i promise, once you learn to love who you are, it won’t hurt anymore…
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
Read More →he wanted me to feel jealousy towards her, but i didn’t…
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
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