it’s ok to take
small steps and deep breaths, love…
but you also have to learn to take up your own space.
and to not say you’re sorry when you do.
and you’re going to be rejected for these
wings you’re growing and these fires you’re starting…
for all of this sweet and wild rebellion in you…
but these are such. beautiful. things.
so you have to keep choosing you.
because nothing will matter if you reject you.
if it needs you small… you just can’t
let it hold you still anymore.
– butterflies rising
Published on February 29, 2024, butterflies rising published a revised excerpt of her poem ‘the sweet and wild rebellion in you‘ , that was originally published on September 27, 2020, and is in her book ‘she’s flowers and fire’.
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