you don’t love,
you just hold people close
to have someone to hurt,
or to hurt someone else with…
but none of it’s love.
– butterflies rising
Read More →none of it’s love…
Tag: Self-love
the catalyst…
to be able to let go of you
it feels as if i’d also have to let go
of who i’ve been
…but i think that was your purpose.
– the catalyst
– butterflies rising
Read More →the evolution of worth…
we carry all the weight,
and we create all the beauty,
until we learn that we deserve someone
who carries their own weight,
and radiates their own beauty
– the evolution of worth
– butterflies rising
Read More →defense mechanisms…
that thing we do as a defense when we’re scared of losing something is often why we end up losing things
– butterflies rising
Read More →let yourself have faith in things…
i’m going to learn from this… and i’m going to grow…
someday i’m going
to love someone, and i’m going
to lay at their feet more love than they
could’ve ever imagined
…and you will never be anything
more to anyone than somebody that
someone, somewhere is
recovering from
– butterflies rising
Read More →confirmation bias…
stop listening
to the voice that tells you
that love is supposed to be hard,
it keeps leading you to places where
love ends up being hard.
– butterflies rising
Read More →i hope that one day the person who hurt you sees you from afar…
i hope that one day
the person who hurt you sees you from afar
dancing in the radiance of
your unburdened spirit and standing
strong in your fully mended bones…
and that for just a moment you feel their gaze,
so you can forever know, without question,
the powerlessness of their
perception over you
– butterflies rising
Read More →to be steady in the soul and free in the spirit – book memes
breathe in tenderness…
i used to
think it was beautiful
the way i offered you all of my softness
and filled the air with tenderness
in the wake of your violence…
but now i know that i deserve to breathe
in tenderness too.
– butterflies rising
Read More →but if it’s love… when it asks you to come along…
but if it’s love…
when it asks you to come along,
it will not ask you to leave
yourself behind
– butterflies rising
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