This poem is about self-care, healing, and honoring yourself. It compares the needs of humxns to the needs of flowers, gardens, and bumblees :)
If you haven’t eaten yet today, go eat.
Flowers never second guess whether they deserve to be nourished.Neither must you.You are a whole garden, full of faeries smaller than poppy seeds.You are a bumblebee who deserves fresh air. You are the center of the universe,
And I need you alive and unfractured so that I can keep loving every breath you take.Go get yourself a glass of water.Flowers like you need it to grow,To reach their arms up to the sun and say,”Teach me.Teach me how to accept the things inside me that burn,Teach me how to let them exist and not extinguish them.Teach me to stay in the same place, while everyone around me moves,And teach me to not grow restless. Teach me how to be.” And listen to the sun tell you that burning hurts, But hiding in the dark hurts more.
And sometimes the sun’s legs grow stiff from standing still,
But still, she stays because she knows
That she does not have to go anywhere
To be loved.
And sometimes existing Is the bravest thing one can do
And you don’t need to learn how to be anything
Because you already are.You already are.i am, i am, i am: Letter to Absolutely Anyone
~pre
If you haven’t eaten yet today, go eat.
Flowers never second guess whether they deserve to be nourished.Neither must you.You are a whole garden, full of faeries smaller than poppy seeds.You are a bumblebee who deserves fresh air. You are the center of the universe,
And I need you alive and unfractured so that I can keep loving every breath you take.Go get yourself a glass of water.Flowers like you need it to grow,To reach their arms up to the sun and say,”Teach me.Teach me how to accept the things inside me that burn,Teach me how to let them exist and not extinguish them.Teach me to stay in the same place, while everyone around me moves,And teach me to not grow restless. Teach me how to be.” And listen to the sun tell you that burning hurts, But hiding in the dark hurts more.
And sometimes the sun’s legs grow stiff from standing still,
But still, she stays because she knows
That she does not have to go anywhere
To be loved.
And sometimes existing Is the bravest thing one can do
And you don’t need to learn how to be anything
Because you already are.You already are.i am, i am, i am: Letter to Absolutely Anyone
~pre