Un Passo Avanti

"We two alone will sing like birds i' the cage. So we'll live and, pray, and sing, and tell old tales, and laugh at gilded butterflies, and hear poor rogues talk of court news; and we'll talk with them too; Who loses and who wins; who's in, who's out;/ And take upon the mystery of things, as if we were God's spies…" --King Lear, Act V, Scene 3 Flee from the worthless; Stay close only to those with a pure heart. We will all laugh at gilded butterflies.

[thelovewhisperer]

I hope that someday, you find an amazing girl. The kind of girl who means everything to you and makes you want to spend every moment of your time with her. The kind of girl who keeps you up at night, just thinking about her beautiful smile, and when you finally fall asleep, she`s all you dream about. I hope she`s the first thing to cross your mind when you wake up in the morning. I hope she changes you in a way you could never understand, yet you know it`s for the better. I hope she`s the kind of girl you would die for. The kind of girl who could make you cry, even though you`d never admit it. The kind of girl who makes you want to go out and do something special, something that means everything to the both of you. The kind of girl you can have silly fights with, then kiss and make up and hold her in your arms like you`re falling in love all over again. I hope you make memories with her her you never forget. I hope she`s your world, and what you have with her is nothing less than perfection. and I hope that one day, you lose her. I hope you mess up and as hard as you try to keep her there with you, she slips through the cracks of your broken heart. I hope it destroys you, because you realized you`ve lost the person you once called your everything. I hope you see every moment you spent together spin away down the drain like it was waiting to happen. I hope you stay up at night because she`s on your mind and when you fall asleep, she haunts your dreams. I hope her beautiful smile stays pressed in your mind like a scar that won’t fade away. I hope you realize that you`re a new person because of her, I hope your new self feels incomplete without her and you miss the old you. The one that was okay with being alone, because you’d rather be the heartbreaker than the heartbroken.

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[thegirlwhocrieswolf]

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[butterflyyoucomefromme]

We were the glass doors everyone kept running into, trying to learn how to shatter without hurting someone.

Andrea Gibson, Close for Comfort (via butterflyyoucomefromme)

[feignedlikelihood]

This year has been the hardest of your whole life. so hard you cannot see a future, most days. The pain is bigger than anything else. Takes up the whole horizon, no matter where you are. You feel unsafe you feel unsaved. Your past so present you can feel your baby teeth. Sitting on the couch, you swear your feet don’t reach the floor. You keep remembering the first time you saw a bird’s nest. Held together by an old shoe lace and scraps of a plastic bag You knew the home of a person could be built like that A lot of things you’d rather throw away You keep worrying you’re taking up too much space. I wish you’d let yourself be the milky way Remember when I told you I was gonna become a full time poet And you paid my rent for three years? Best Friend, Angel of the get through. All living is storm chasing. Every good heart has lost its roof. Let all the walls collapse at your feet, Scream timber when they ask you how you are. Fine is the suckiest word. It is the opposite of HERE Here is the only place left on the map Here is where you learn laughter can go extinct and come back I am already building the museum For every treasure you unearth in the rock bottom Holy vulnerable cliff God mason, heart heavier than all the bricks Say this is what the pain made of you An open open open road An avalanche of feel it all Don’t ever let anyone tell you, you are too much Or it has been too long Whatever keeps the stutterer from stuttering when he sings a song you are made of that thing That unbreakable note That photography of you at five years old, the year you ran away from school, because you wanted to go home. You are almost there. You are the same compass you have always been You are the same friend who never left my side during my worst year You caught every tantrum I threw with your bare hands chucked it back at the blood moon said its okay, everyone’s survival looks a little bit like death I wrote a poem called “say yes” while I was cursing you For not letting me go. Best friend, this is what we do. We gather each other up. We say, the cup is half yours and half mine. We say alone is the last place you will ever be. We say tonight lets stay inside reading pema chodron while everyone else is out on the town pema will say “only to the extent we expose ourselves over and over to annihilation can that which is indestructible in us be found” You’ll say Pema is so wise. And I’ll say yes she is, and we are too. Angels of the get through. We are too.

Andrea Gibson, Angels of the Get Through (via feignedlikelihood)

[goodquoteco]

Before I die, I want to be somebody’s favorite hiding place, the place they can put everything they know they need to survive, every secret, every solitude, every nervous prayer, and be absolutely certain I will keep it safe. I will keep it safe.

Andrea Gibson, excerpt from “Bone Burying” (via hqlines)

[incorrectedda]

It’s okay. Everyone’s survival looks a little bit like death sometimes.

Hel, probably. (via incorrectedda)

[wnq-anonymous]

Some people will never understand the kind of superpower it takes for some people to just walk outside.

Andrea Gibson (via wnq-anonymous)

[wordsnquotes]

This is for the times you went through hell so someone else wouldn’t have to.

Andrea Gibson (via wordsnquotes)

[forgottengenres]

You are not weak just because your heart feels so heavy.

Andrea Gibson (via clash-official)

[listentothestories]

[forcinglaughter-faking-smiles]

“children aren’t coloring books. you don’t get to fill them with your favorite colors” !!!!!

[lyingoracle]

There are a few great souls in my life. They are not many. They are few. You are one.

Anne Sexton, in a letter to Brother Dennis Ferrell (via jarreola)

[onewaybutterfly-daydream]

[432hzvibes]

how do you fly over the rainbow when your wings have been clipped?

how do you smile when the demons follow you into the day?

#poetry.black 

[432hzvibes]

perhaps that’s what happens when twin galaxies collide;

they destroy each other.

#poetry.black #darkbeautymag

[432hzvibes]

but no, there is no letting go

when you’re in the clutches of your ghost clinging to your bones in the cold

in the heart of the sun, it snows

and i know because the light has never lead me home.  

[purplebuddhaproject]

If they respect you, respect them. If they disrespect you, still respect them. Do not allow the actions of others to decrease your good manners, because you represent yourself, not others.

Mohammad Zeyara (via purplebuddhaproject)