it could be something beautiful…

i never knew…
because they didn’t want me to know…
that it’s spiritual. touch is spiritual.
passion is spiritual. soul to skin…
it’s. all. spiritual.
they never told me that it could be beautiful.
that i’m beautiful. that you’re beautiful.
and all of that heat and heart
and wild intensity… it’s. beautiful.
and little by little, i’m trying to trade in
shame and fear and just let myself feel
all the things i’ve never let myself feel.
maybe then it could be something… beautiful.

– butterflies rising

love won’t
ask you to be less of yourself,
it will invite you to
become more and more of you,
to step into all of you

– butterflies rising

please quiet the noise in my head so i can hear the voice in my heart

– butterflies rising

clarity…

may this stillness stay
and quiet the noise in my head
so i can hear the voice in my heart

– butterflies rising

a heavy relationship
isn’t the same as a deep love…
a deep love won’t weigh you down,
it will breathe into your soul and
allow you to be free

– butterflies rising

i think, sometimes… we confuse a heavy relationship with a deep love. and maybe it’s not so easy to know the difference. but i don’t think love wants to weigh you down… i think love will let you grow… and breathe into your soul and make you feel alive and free.

– butterflies rising

you’re not getting this all wrong;
being human is really hard, and things hurt
so much because you’re made of stuff that’s so
much better than this place. so it’s ok to barely
even know how to be human sometimes…
just take it from one breath to the next.

you’re just a soft spirit
in a hard world.

– butterflies rising