it’s been really, really hard, but you’ve been so brave.
– butterflies rising
Originally published in her first poetry book ‘wild spirit, soft heart’ the butterflies rising quote ‘it’s been really, really hard, but you’ve been so brave’ that is also an excerpt from her longer prose poem i hope you can hear this were published again in her second poetry book ‘she’s flowers and fire’. The quote and poem both came from a dark time in butterflies rising’s life, where she was struggling with the kinds of things that are hard to see any light through, and the quote came to her as a message of comfort from the universe. She shares the quote today hoping that it’s a message of comfort to others as well.
i hope
you can hear this…
when your soul is suffocating
from all the things you just. can’t. say.
as they chew at your chest,
and you ache and crumble
until you become nothing
but mess and madness
gutted. on the floor.
and in the dark. and it’s so. dark.
that even the moon hides and the stars
go quiet and anything that ever
sounded like a way out just. goes. quiet.
i hope you hear this… it’s been so. damn. hard.
but you’ve been so brave.
– butterflies rising
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