Lord of the Butterflies

by Andrea Gibson

I suffer from unrequited self love. I love myself, but I don’t love myself back.

Of all the violence I have known in my life I have never known violence like the violence I have spoken to myself,

DEPRESSION [VERB] 1. to put on your best outfit and feel like you’re dressing a wound.

ALL THE GOOD IN YOU When all the good in you starts arguing with all the bad in you about who you really are, never let the bad in you make the better case.

I think the hardest people in the world to forgive are the people we once were, the people we are trying desperately to not stir into the recipe of who we are now.