there’s always been an ache in your
back that has felt something like wings…
something inside of you has always
been trying to carry you.
– butterflies rising
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Tag: Spirit
the wild, the flowers, and the fire…
that wild in your heart,
those flowers in your chest,
and the fire in your blood
– butterflies rising
Read More →she looks at her like she’s a beautiful wildness on fire….
he looks at him like he’s a beautiful wildness on fire…
she looks at him like he’s a beautiful wildness on fire…
like she’s a beautiful wildness on fire….
he looks at her the way she looks
at flowers… like she’s just this beautiful
wildness on fire.
– butterflies rising
Read More →a beautiful wildness on fire….
i think it’s a good thing, how we can struggle in such desperation…
A Good Thing…
i think it’s a good thing,
how we can struggle in such desperation
for clarity and still never find a way to make
any sense of how they treated us…
i think it means we’re just not capable of
that same cruelty within ourselves.
and i think that’s a really good thing.
– butterflies rising
Read More →the turning point…
The Turning Point…
let go your fear
as it falls
beautiful, be still
this untangling of it all
let your bones fill with might
let your lungs fill with free
don’t look back.
– butterflies rising
Read More →love won’t ask you to be less of yourself, it will invite you to become more…
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
Read More →please quiet the noise in my head so i can hear the voice in my heart…
please quiet the noise in my head so i can hear the voice in my heart
– butterflies rising
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