i've been dying to feel even just a little bit of air inside my lungs… suffocating myself for so long, always asking for permission for the shape of my presence and the width of my wings… it's time to let myself breathe and unfold
– butterflies rising

» the butterflies rising poem ‘i've been dying to feel even just a little bit of air inside my lungs' is published in her book ‘she's flowers and fire' and was originally published on the butterflies rising poetry blog