“i once loved someone
who tried to control me, and so
it became somewhere i couldn't breathe.
but i also once loved someone i couldn't trust…
and that was a kind of prison, too.

because freedom and trust aren't
strangers to each other…

like there’s a way you feel yourself
pulled so strongly to someone who makes
you feel free… and i also think you don’t ever feel
more like letting your heart run wild than you
do with someone to whom the state
of your heart matters.”

– butterflies rising

» The butterflies rising quote ‘i once loved someone who tried to control me and so it became somewhere i couldn't breathe' is the original version of a poem that is in her book ‘she's flowers and fire' and it was originally published on the butterflies rising poetry blog