Christi Mari

swipe for happy sunset moments 🌅 I’ve been lucky enough to watch the sunset every evening. It’s the greatest gift to myself and it’s absolutely free. I usually swim to catch the sun as it kisses the ocean goodbye.

star 💫 we are all born from darkness it is the only way to know light if you grow up afraid of the dark you can burn a candle and wait, but don’t forget, you know it well you are born from darkness do not be afraid the other side will soon return you are made with fire far greater than any fear do not run from the dark for you are strong, right here

love me like a home 🦋 to love someone when things are good- is easy there is a version of me that is easy to love where my hair is shiny, lips smooth and summer glows over my soul anyone can admire perfection it doesn’t make it special but when the night becomes long and i forget to hold on that’s where true love steps in to love the most unlovable parts to love the version covered in marks and say no matter what your home is my arms

the heart who spoke for the first time ♥️ now that heart has a voice heart is excited to speak heart will confess her love every day heart is very fond of you absolute crazy butterflies all bumping into each other on the inside no one can catch them heart is alive! now that heart has a voice heart won’t ever stop saying your name heart loves your name heart doesn’t want you to leave heart was made to love and only wants to love heart will annoy you with too much love oh, i see heart can be too much heart thinks about forever and only sees your face when you are mad, heart feels sadness in a big bad way heart thinks this is unfair why is a lot of love also a lot of sadness? heart has questions questions don’t mean answers heart wishes to feel a little less please? when heart tries to love less heart breaks, it stings heart wishes to be a bit smaller heart only wants to be held no one is listening heart doesn’t want a voice anymore voice only gets heart in trouble why does heart love more than other hearts? from today, heart no longer speaks it’s much safer, to stick to heart’s beats

Parts of me 🧚 I am not simply a body, rather the things i write, the humans i miss at night. the water and the storm, chaos and the warm My love, yes all the love i give, the love I receive, I do not love in puddles How could I when there are waves swimming through my heart? I am my voice, and my art All these fears and ferocious tears oh the desires, oh the passion, oh the oh’s. My friends, my beautiful friends, The things i’ve called home, the skies, the ocean, its foam How I beg the moon to stay, With emotion and sway, I am not yet complete, more of myself I’ve yet to meet. How wonderful to be and love the parts of me.

Pura Vida 🌞🧚🦋

it’s not all sunshine ☀️ growing pains i am a woman but i sometimes feel like a girl questioning my place in our big world i don’t always know where i belong some days it’s a quite tough to be certain and strong my path can seem blurry and often unsure with many successful people, i can’t help but keep score everyone appears to have it all figured out i’m trying to understand what i’m crying about there’s this fear i’m doing it all wrong like some different path i should follow along people only show when it’s going well when things are bad they’d rather not tell no one spends their life, entirely in the sun so if your struggling, you’re not the only one

you are my most important poem under the sheets, you can press your cold feet against my legs when you forget a towel for the shower i will spread and wrap it around like a grand cocoon you can be big or little spoon for you are the most important poem i’ll ever write It’s a gift to roll over and kiss goodnight i will love you as much as i know and in return i hope you won’t go after we’ve shared a thousand sunsets and a thousand cups of tea there is no mundane moment that means nothing to me each detail of our lives is pure and exciting that’s why your the poem i’ll never stop writing Christi Steyn

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i do not want to be a good woman comment a rose 🌹 🥀 if you’re done being a “good woman” i don’t want to be a good woman i don’t want praise for a cross legged pose i don’t want to speak like a rose i don’t want to giggle when you touch my arm i don’t want to run from every alarm i won’t be scared and cover up won’t shiver when i say shut up i said no, that means go leave, i am not asleep i see everything, as i stand i am more than a ring on my hand more than my body and beauty raising children is not my duty the good women left and found a choice good woman see, you have a voice Christi Steyn

What I want women to know 💜 it’s easy to say take up space, but hard to do if you have never been asked about your opinions it‘a easy to say just say no, but difficult when you have been taught that being “wanted” is the greatest achievement it is easy to say stop caring about what others think dress the way you want love who you want love yourself but it can seem impossible when you have to heal first, and unlearn all that you were taught trauma can live deep inside bones, take it slow it’s okay to be scared just being is enough you don’t have to be so tough Christi Steyn

let your wings grow 🦋 please do not please everyone you will fall short and resort to settling and regretting stings when you are the one cutting your own wings dare to be daring and ignore all the glaring from the crowd nothing can make the scornful proud and you don’t have time worth wasting you are tasting life the ones that matter are in awe it’s only you that they adore be honest and show how you feel i don’t care if you are broken at least you are real Christi Steyn

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