kissed by the sunlight and bitten by the moon
– butterflies rising
A big part of the ‘keep your heart wilder than wild’ energy is embracing your different layers and dichotomies. The butterflies rising poem excerpt ‘kissed by the sunlight and bitten by the moon’ is derived from her poem shadow & sugar’ that was published on December 8, 2020, and is going to be published in her poetry book ‘she’s flowers and fire’.
shadow & sugar…
you are
allowed to be
a many-layered thing…
to have texture and shades.
to be kissed by the sunlight
and bitten by the moon
and to feel all the different ways
that you feel,
all the raw and tender mess of it all.
to let all of that shadow and sugar be in you
and the pretty and dirty and beautiful and wild
run through you and spill out of you
everywhere, all at once…
to just let yourself be a
soft and wild thing.
– butterflies rising
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