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

» the butterflies rising poem ‘it's ok to take small steps and deep breaths, love… but you also have to learn to take up your own space' is an excerpt from a poem published in her book ‘she's flowers and fire' and was originally published on the butterflies rising poetry blog