A Good Thing…
i think it’s a good thing,
how we can struggle in such desperation
for clarity and still never find a way to make
any sense of how they treated us…
i think it means we’re just not capable of
that same cruelty within ourselves.
and i think that’s a really good thing.
– butterflies rising
The ‘like a butterfly, her wings unfolded’ energy for butterflies rising is also about learning to let go of the weight you’ve taken on from the way others have hurt you. The butterflies rising poem ‘i think it’s a good thing, how we can struggle in such desperation’ is an original and copyrighted poem that butterflies rising wrote about not letting yourself get stuck in the pain others cause you. Ad if you find yourself spiraling, trying to understand why they did what they did, let yourself imagine that maybe not understanding is a good reflection on who you are.
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