people who love
passionately are meant to
be loved passionately
– butterflies rising
Read More →Tag: Self Worth
if they love you, they will love the way you fall in love with yourself…
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: surrender and strength…
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 →trust issues…
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..
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 →southern girl with a wild soul: the remix…
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 →southern girl with a wild soul…
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
Read More →something a little bit like faith…
i will not
take care of my fears today.
i will not feed them or tend to them
or give them any space.
and if i do not take care of my fears today…
what i feel tomorrow might be something
a little bit like faith.
– butterflies rising
Read More →dear heart…
dear heart,
why do you run from the
things that give you a pulse
…don’t fear what makes you feel
– butterflies rising
Read More →keep them high: your standards for love are going to make some people uncomfortable…
your standards for love
are going to make some people
uncomfortable, and they will try to make
you feel like your standards are too high,
but it’s only because those standards threaten
their comfort zones.
what you believe in either challenges
how they treat people,
or how they’ve accepted being treated.
keep them high.
– butterflies rising
– butterflies rising
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