give me
the tender and the fire.
i want the angst and ache
and wild mess.
all of it broken open,
nothing less.
because there's just nothing else
that can disarm me like that.
it completely takes me apart…
a man's passion and
raw vulnerability,
the stretching of his heart walls
and all those flowers growing
from his chest.
– butterflies rising

» the butterflies rising poem ‘give me the tender and the fire. i want the angst and ache and wild mess' is published in her book ‘she's flowers and fire' and was originally published on the butterflies rising poetry blog