Florence

“if the hurt comes
so will the happiness”
― Rupi Kaur, Milk and honey

“people say things
meant to rip you in half
but you hold the power to not
turn their words into a knife
and cut yourself”
― rupi kaur, Milk and honey

“Wild Geese"

You do not have to be good.
You do not have to walk on your knees
for a hundred miles through the desert repenting.
You only have to let the soft animal of your body
love what it loves.
Tell me about despair, yours, and I will tell you mine.
Meanwhile the world goes on.
Meanwhile the sun and the clear pebbles of the rain
are moving across the landscapes,
over the prairies and the deep trees,
the mountains and the rivers.
Meanwhile the wild geese, high in the clean blue air,
are heading home again.
Whoever you are, no matter how lonely,
the world offers itself to your imagination,
calls to you like the wild geese, harsh and exciting -
over and over announcing your place
in the family of things.”
― Mary Oliver, Dream Work

“I began to pick through the red rivers
of confusion;

I began to take apart
the deep stitches
of nightmares.”
― Mary Oliver, Dream Work