Excellent Written for a friend going to inpatient treatment. Songs of Recovery : For C by K. Olsen

I have stood where you stand now, and I recall how fragile and afraid I felt, as if poised on the edge of tearing in half. But if you feel the same, I hope that you know it is not brute force and hardness that carries a butterfly thousands of miles in migration across a wonderful world, but the fragility of amber wings, so delicate they too seem easily torn, yet they ride winds like fluttering jewels: a beautiful endurance and graceful learning how to use even storming weathers to reach their far-flung destinations. They come from such humble beginnings, yet are transfigured and reborn, not through ease, but difficult work in a chrysalis, into Monarchs, queens of the sky. I hope you keep that vulnerability, that gentleness, that sensitivity, like amber wings inside your heart and let them carry you to exactly where you’re supposed to be. Author Notes Written for a friend made in treatment who headed to inpatient care for her eating disorder.

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