but if he was right for you… it would break his heart open…

but if he
was right for you…
it would break his heart open
to see you hurt in the very
way he hurts you

– butterflies rising

so she exhaled every version of herself that she had taken on for someone else, and then... like a butterfly, her wings unfolded

the heavy just
became unbearable the
more she realized she was carrying
so much that was never even hers to hold.
so she exhaled every version of herself
that she had taken on for someone else,
and then… like a butterfly,
her wings unfolded.

– butterflies rising

like a butterfly,
her wings unfolded

– butterflies rising

like a butterfly,
her wings unfolded

– butterflies rising

…wanting to know the shape of you, without having to lose my own… and not yet knowing how. how do i take you in, but keep me too. how do i breathe love and wholeness all at once.

– butterflies rising

i’m here… wanting
to know the shape of you,
without having to lose my own,
but just not yet knowing how…

how do i take you in, but keep me too.

how do i breathe love
and wholeness all at once.

– butterflies rising

it's been so. damn. hard. but you've been so brave.

i hope
you can hear this…
when your soul is suffocating
from all the things you just. can’t. say.
as they chew at your chest,
and you ache and crumble
until you become nothing
but mess and madness
gutted. on the floor.
and in the dark. and it’s so. dark.
that even the moon hides and the stars
go quiet and anything that ever
sounded like a way out just. goes. quiet.
i hope you hear this… it’s been so. damn. hard.
but you’ve been so brave.

– butterflies rising