you won't find
this version of me that
i'm growing into begging for
or clinging to anything…

because nothing that is for me
will need to be gripped or clawed at…
just inhaled and taken in as it falls
all around me like golden
morning light
– butterflies rising

» the butterflies rising quote ‘you won't find this version of me that i'm growing into begging' is published in her book ‘wild spirit, soft heart' and was originally published on the butterflies rising poetry blog