To Be Honest

by Nelle Starling

you deserve a shout it from the rooftops kind of love. a slow kind of love. a dance in the middle of the street under the stars kind of love, an i will catch you if you fall kind of love. a shoulder to cry on kind of love. a flowers just because kind of love. an if you hurt, i hurt, kind of love. a dream come true kind of love. an i’m sorry i was wrong kind of love. anything less is not worth your time. anything less does not deserve to hold your heart.

my head: i don’t think this is a good idea. my heart: but what if it is?

letting go means you loved yourself more than to keep holding on to something that hurt more than it didn’t. putting yourself first is never a failure

maybe it’s true that when it rains it pours, but that just means there will be a rainbow on the horizon ready for you to see it. and if you start to fall, you can lean in my direction because i promise i’m not going anywhere unless it’s with you.

love yourself when things are hard, when you make mistakes, when you give up before trying, when you don’t workout for the second day in a row, when you lay in bed all day, when all you feel is sadness, when a promise is hard to keep, when you don’t know what to say, when you say too much, when you fail, when you don’t want to. love yourself even when you don’t feel like it

they say love is invisible, but when i look in the mirror i know that isn’t true. self love

i need to learn how to stop looking for a love that doesn't know how to find me. i don't want what doesn't want me

maybe in another lifetime i will find you again and it will be different.

i will keep growing until the sun gives me a reason to stop believing that i can. the light never goes out

everything is changing and maybe that means you don’t know where you’re going, but maybe that means something beautiful is just around the corner.

but that’s the thing about love, you don’t get to decide who stays. so don’t leave yourself behind waiting for someone to change how they feel about you when you still haven’t met all of the people who will know how to love you back.