on your own
is where your
wildflowers grow,
there’s no one else here to
block their sun,
but no one else can water
them but you
– butterflies rising
Read More →on your own
is where your
wildflowers grow,
there’s no one else here to
block their sun,
but no one else can water
them but you
– butterflies rising
Read More →…i’m still learning how to hear the word beautiful and let it be meant for me
– butterflies rising
Read More →i’m still learning
how to hear the word beautiful
and let it be meant for me
…to breathe it in
and let it belong here
– butterflies rising
Read More →everything in you
is meant to be felt by someone
who loves as raw in their nerves
and as full in their blood,
and could never be unaffected by you
– fire
– butterflies rising
Read More →if they love you,
they will love the way
you fall in love with yourself,
and life, and them,
and everything beautiful
– butterflies rising
Read More →this becoming
will ask for your breath, patience
and for your fight, perseverance
transformation is made of both
surrender and strength
– butterflies rising
Read More →it makes it harder to love people
when you won’t let yourself
have faith in them
– butterflies rising
Read More →i’m learning
to love the way
my name settles
in silence
before i can love
how it falls
from another’s
mouth
– this love story first.
– butterflies rising
Read More →she’s got
her daddy’s eyes
and her mama’s pretty lips,
and she’ll stay on your mind
with a sugar-sweet kiss,
that southern girl with her wild soul
will leave an imprint on your heart
and make under those southern sunsets
feel like somewhere you belong
– butterflies rising
Read More →she’s got
her daddy’s blue eyes
and her mama’s pretty lips,
and she’ll stay on your mind
with a sugar-sweet kiss,
that southern girl with her wild soul
will leave an imprint on your heart
and make somewhere in tennessee
feel something like home
– butterflies rising
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