my power has been,
in spite of everything, always
finding it in me somewhere
to say to myself… you are worthy.
– butterflies rising
Read More →my power has been,
in spite of everything, always
finding it in me somewhere
to say to myself… you are worthy.
– butterflies rising
Read More →your beating heart, wild air,
and all the other things that make
me want to run free
– butterflies rising
Read More →healing is an intimate,
delicate,
unique,
fingerprint…
take the journey you need
to get there
– butterflies rising
Read More →young boy
you will grow
they will tell you to be strong
they will teach you to be tough
i hope someone tells you to feel
i hope they teach you to be love
young man
grown man
let yourself be love
– butterflies rising
Read More →may the
sunrise bring you peace
and fill your soul with
possibility
– butterflies rising
Read More →i finally stopped waiting…
waiting for him to feel sorry, to feel regret,
to feel guilty, to realize how much he had lost
in me and to feel some certain way for all
that he had done to me
i finally understood…
it really never had anything to do with me.
someone who is capable of all
that he had done was just never capable
of feeling anything at all.
– butterflies rising
Read More →never be ashamed
of how deeply and passionately
you loved someone who destroyed you,
because destroying things is just who they are…
but loving things deeply and passionately
is who you are
– butterflies rising
Read More →illusions…
i spent all that time
haunted by the ghost of
someone you never really were
– butterflies rising
Read More →sometimes the healing
isn’t as complicated as it feels,
it just asks for space, and surrender, and release…
allowing time to turn the pages
and the memories to fade,
just letting all those messes untangle
and what’s gone to fall away
– butterflies rising
Read More →it’s just never been in me
to avoid loneliness with another
and try to call it love.
– butterflies rising
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