“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

» the butterflies rising poem i think it’s a good thing, how we can struggle in such desperation for clarity is from her poetry book ‘wild spirit, soft heart’ and was originally published on the butterflies rising poetry blog