in a wilderness,
with an unheld hand,
you will learn
to love yourself just as madly,
with the fierceness,
the recklessness,
that you have loved them
– butterflies rising
‘in a wilderness, with an unheld hand, you will learn to love yourself just as madly, with the fierceness’ is a poem by the author butterflies rising that is published in her poetry book ‘wild spirit, soft heart’. The poem is something that butterflies rising wrote after a breakup in the process of wanting to learn to love herself on her own and by herself and with just as much passion as she put into her relationship. She has another poem called sweet girl, it wasn’t that you weren’t enough that came from the same kind of place of learning to love who you are after heartbreak.
