{"id":3828,"date":"2016-04-19T04:21:29","date_gmt":"2016-04-19T08:21:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prettyprincess.us\/blog\/?p=3828"},"modified":"2025-04-19T04:28:17","modified_gmt":"2025-04-19T08:28:17","slug":"why-else-would-you-have-been-given","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prettyprincess.us\/blog\/why-else-would-you-have-been-given\/","title":{"rendered":"Poetry Inspiration: why else would you have been given\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/prettyprincess.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/why-else-full-BOOK-2-MED.jpg\" alt=\"why else would you have been given this soft and tender heart if you weren&#039;t\nmeant to make it softer here for other tender hearts\" width=\"1500\" height=\"1693\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3830\" srcset=\"https:\/\/prettyprincess.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/why-else-full-BOOK-2-MED.jpg 1500w, https:\/\/prettyprincess.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/why-else-full-BOOK-2-MED-266x300.jpg 266w, https:\/\/prettyprincess.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/why-else-full-BOOK-2-MED-907x1024.jpg 907w, https:\/\/prettyprincess.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/why-else-full-BOOK-2-MED-768x867.jpg 768w, https:\/\/prettyprincess.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/why-else-full-BOOK-2-MED-1361x1536.jpg 1361w, https:\/\/prettyprincess.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/why-else-full-BOOK-2-MED-570x643.jpg 570w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1500px) 100vw, 1500px\" \/><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>why else would you have been given<br \/>\nthis soft and tender heart if you weren't<br \/>\nmeant to make it softer here for other tender hearts\u2026<br \/>\nthe way you feel so much helps someone else<br \/>\nwho feels so much\u2026 feel less alone.<\/p>\n<p>why else would you have been given<br \/>\nthis poetry heart that loves true and deep<br \/>\nand beautifully wild if you weren't meant to<br \/>\nbe loved true and deep and beautifully wild,<br \/>\nand to be kissed like wildfire by someone<br \/>\nwho sees you as art.<\/p>\n<p>why else would you have been given<br \/>\nthis wildflower energy if you weren't meant to<br \/>\nrun free in the sunlight and get drunk on the moonlight<br \/>\nand be kissed by the starlight\u2026 there's a world<br \/>\noutside and you need it in your veins.<\/p>\n<p>why else would you have been given<br \/>\nthis passionate ache inside for it if you weren't<br \/>\nmeant to know it and tangibly hold it\u2026. dreams are<br \/>\ndreams on purpose. aches are in us on purpose.<br \/>\nyour heart reaches for it on purpose\u2026<br \/>\nand because your soul remembers it.<\/p>\n<p>i just don't think the universe is making mistakes<br \/>\nwith our hearts and souls\u2026<\/p>\n<p>so why else love if not to feel stars<br \/>\nexploding in our veins\u2026 because why else are<br \/>\nwe here if not to live with unreasonable<br \/>\npassion for things.<\/em><br \/>\n&#8211; butterflies rising<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&raquo; the butterflies rising poem <a href=\"https:\/\/butterfliesrising.com\/why-else-would-you-have-been-given\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"why else would you have been given this soft and tender heart if you weren't meant\" rel=\"noopener\">&#8216;why else would you have been given this soft and tender heart if you weren't meant'<\/a> was originally published on the butterflies rising poetry blog<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><em>why else love if not to feel stars<br \/>\nexploding in our veins\u2026 because why else are<br \/>\nwe here if not to live with unreasonable<br \/>\npassion for things<\/em><br \/>\n&#8211; butterflies rising<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53],"tags":[216,132,125,193,98,60],"class_list":["post-3828","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-inspiration-spirit","tag-butterflies-rising","tag-inspiration","tag-poem","tag-poet","tag-poetry","tag-quote"],"psp_head":"<title>why else would you have been given - butterflies rising<\/title>\r\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"why else love if not to feel stars exploding in our veins\u2026 because why else are we here if not to live with unreasonable passion for things\" \/>\r\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index,follow\" \/>\r\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/prettyprincess.us\/blog\/why-else-would-you-have-been-given\/\" \/>\r\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prettyprincess.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3828","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/prettyprincess.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/prettyprincess.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prettyprincess.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prettyprincess.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3828"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/prettyprincess.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3828\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3833,"href":"https:\/\/prettyprincess.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3828\/revisions\/3833"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prettyprincess.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prettyprincess.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prettyprincess.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}